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With kids stuck at home, ER doctors see more severe cases of child abuse
Washington Post ^ | April 30, 2020 | Samantha Schmidt and Hannah Natanson

Posted on 04/30/2020 5:18:54 PM PDT by EdnaMode

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Pediatricians across the country are sounding the alarm: The stress of unemployment and financial insecurity has strained relationships between children and those who care for them. The closures of schools and day cares have forced children closer to adults who may not be safe.

In a world without school, doctors and advocates say, no one is there to watch, to speak up, until it’s too late.

The American system of catching child abuse relies on kids venturing outside their homes.

Year after year, most referrals to child protective services come from professionals — police officers, lawyers, doctors, anyone who comes into contact with a child as part of their job. But no group reports more than educators, who were responsible for 21 percent of the 4.3 million referrals made in 2018, according to federal data.

After 17 years in the classroom, one fifth-grade teacher in Northern Virginia said she’s learned exactly what to watch for: Students falling asleep inexplicably or stealing peers’ food at snack time. Prolonged absences from school paired with reasons that make little sense — out for a week, she was told once, because the student slid and fell. Promised doctor’s notes that never arrived.

She’s trying to stay in touch with her fifth-graders, holding video class and office hours, phoning and emailing. But the teacher, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect her students’ privacy, knows it’s not enough.

She worries about students she says are showing troubling signs — withdrawing, refusing to show themselves on video lessons. She worries especially about a student she has twice reported as a possible victim of abuse this year. Recently, she wrote that student a letter.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: abuse; childabuse; endthelockdown; endthelockdowns; endtheshutdown; endtheshutdowns; lockdown
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Child abuse and domestic abuse are two of the biggest dangers of this lockdown.
1 posted on 04/30/2020 5:18:54 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

Yet another democrat manufactured crisis.


2 posted on 04/30/2020 5:23:01 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: EdnaMode
So to save 85 year olds with diabetes and dementia we expose thousands and thousands of kids to savage beatings...or worse.
3 posted on 04/30/2020 5:23:27 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
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To: EdnaMode

Add suicide,bankruptcy and alcoholism to that list.


4 posted on 04/30/2020 5:24:23 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
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To: EdnaMode

This and spousal abuse at a high


5 posted on 04/30/2020 5:24:57 PM PDT by The Mayor (I am outraged at your outrage toward the outrage!)
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To: EdnaMode

ask Farci and Scarf what they think


6 posted on 04/30/2020 5:25:34 PM PDT by dontreadthis (A TIMELINE OF TREASON on Profile Page)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Exactly.


7 posted on 04/30/2020 5:27:32 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Bonemaker

No it’s true.

My 87 year old mother keeps hitting me with her cane.

Probably needed stitches last time.


8 posted on 04/30/2020 5:32:56 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dloont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: EdnaMode

Predictable. I would personally love to kick each and every single one of these men’s buttocks. The Mrs would do it to the women.


9 posted on 04/30/2020 5:35:38 PM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: dp0622
Good thing there aren't any crumb crunchers around me now!😎
10 posted on 04/30/2020 5:44:40 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Bonemaker

I had to look that up

lol

children :)

I had an old uncle in his 90s die last year.

Too many lumps in his cereal.

Couldn’t chew anymore and just fell right over.

They wrote “Captain Crunch” as cause of death :)


11 posted on 04/30/2020 5:48:44 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dloont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: EdnaMode

As a massive group of the population finally learns, it wasn’t the teachers after all...


12 posted on 04/30/2020 5:48:48 PM PDT by DanielRedfoot (Lying Dog Faced Pony Soldier)
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ask Farci and Scarf what they think
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Dr. Fakey and Dr. Bersurk have no interest in children.


13 posted on 04/30/2020 5:49:30 PM PDT by HypatiaTaught
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To: EdnaMode

Really glad to see articles like this! I despise the Post as much as anyone, but they will reach the people who need to hear this. Sadly, I don’t think saying either “lockdowns are unconstitutional” or “ lockdowns are not needed” will have any effect on our compliant and fearful populace. The only thing that will move people is to realize the alternative is worse. Trump should have been doing this all along.


14 posted on 04/30/2020 5:50:36 PM PDT by PlateOfShrimp (c)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Sums it up correctly. A large percentage of those dying had an average actuarial life expectancy left of less than a year, given their co-morbidities and age. Many were basically in the process of dying very soon.


15 posted on 04/30/2020 6:01:11 PM PDT by Codeflier (Covid-19 taught me: Two types of "conservatives", frightened safety seekers vs. freedom lovers)
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To: HypatiaTaught

Dr bird has two well to do daughters and a nice husband. Actually.


16 posted on 04/30/2020 6:01:45 PM PDT by stanne
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The American system of catching child abuse relies on kids venturing outside their homes.

A system that believes that spanking is child abuse. Enough said.

17 posted on 04/30/2020 6:06:23 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: EdnaMode

Not sure if SEEING more cases means there ARE more cases.


18 posted on 04/30/2020 6:11:08 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: EdnaMode

Who would have predicted that? LOL!


19 posted on 04/30/2020 6:15:40 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: EdnaMode

end the lockdown. think of the children.


20 posted on 04/30/2020 6:20:56 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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