Our son is 19 now, but when he was 6, he and his dad were playing soccer in the back yard and as my son dove to block a ball (he was the goalie,) he injured his hand. We took him to our local ER, and he had a broken bone and growth plate in his hand. We were all “quizzed” separately as to what actually happened. i guess they wanted to know if dad had abused him and broken the kid’s hand. And this was 13 years ago. From this article it seems like things have gotten out of hand.
You’re right. This has been going on for years and years. Doctors and dentists are required to report injuires that could have been caused by another person even if it was truly an accident. The same thing has happened to me a couple of times. I actually heard my dentist call into somewhere when I chipped my tooth. I should have had the guts to ask who they were calling, but didn’t.