You can’t tell me the SS# is required. I have reported child abuse and had no earthly clue what the SS# was. Plus, either the reporting is mandatory or it’s not. Do you imagine the statute reads, ‘Must report provided the parent divulges the SS#; otherwise, no responsibility to reort.’
Please. This thing stinks to high heaven. Prayers for the father and his son.
SSN and DOB were needed to report so that the child was identifiable in the state database. The father didn’t provide it.
When I was a kid, kids didn’t need an SSN until they were old enough to work for wages.
This is certainly a horrible predicament, & I have no trust in the child welfare folks or even the police to do the right thing anymore. The SS# isn’t anything to get hung up about. We get asked for that number for any irrelevant thing these days. If the son is experiencing abuse at the hands of the mother’s boyfriend - to the point of trembling at the prospect of being sent to his home - someone needs to intervene. The father can’t do that himself now. That means going to the authorities who have the ability to terminate custodial rights.
I will most certainly pray for the father & child.
Children taken out of abusive homes tended to go into far more abusive foster homes, for one. My wife, who taught LD kids for 35 years reached the same conclusions independently.She fulfilled the legal requirements as a teacher but felt strong misgivings doing so as too many reports to authorities resulted in worse situations for the affected child.
In a more recent situation I thought a child was indeed in immediate danger of his life and called police with evidence and nothing at all happened. The husband a year later shot his wife in front of the then two children and is now on death row at Raiford.