➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
US: Child Abuse: The Not-Really-All-That-Shocking Truth (Opinion)
The Chronicle of Social Change – May 04, 2016
Children’s Data Network’s (CDN’s) five-year study suffers from the same flaw as the one-year studies: a reliance on official definitions of maltreatment, definitions that make it easy to confuse poverty with “neglect.” And “neglect” constitutes the overwhelming majority of maltreatment reports.
https://chronicleofsocialchange.org/child-welfare-2/child-abuse-not-really-shocking-truth/17829