➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
International: New Longitudinal Study Finds Epidemic of Fear, Not an Epidemic of Child Abuse
Chronicle of Social Change – May 31, 2016
When a longitudinal study of children in California found that they are more likely to be reported as allegedly being abused or neglected over five years than over just one, this led to some remarkable leaps of logic. It was suggested that the study shows “child maltreatment is a far larger societal epidemic than we’ve previously thought” and “a reckoning is coming in child protection.”
https://chronicleofsocialchange.org/blogger-co-op/new-longitudinal-study-finds-epidemic-fear-not-epidemic-child-abuse/18407