The article mentions the baby having cuts on his tongue and the parents not knowing why.
Very low iron can cause the tongue to crack and bleed painfully.
If they are formula feeding, the baby may have low iron with no abuse at all.
“Very low iron can cause the tongue to crack and bleed painfully.
If they are formula feeding, the baby may have low iron with no abuse at all.”
And THAT should be the default assumption, NOT that there is abuse.
This is the problem with the state and all the other busybodies. If the first instinct of the state was “this family might need some help in learning what is wrong with their child” instead of “this family is probably abusing their children and we need to take them away”, then more children would be getting necessary or helpful medical attention, fewer children, parents and families would be horrendously traumatized, and more attention could be paid to those families that are truly, dangerously disfunctional.