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Focus: Child abuse
In child abuses cases, do parents fear social stigma more than the psychological damage on the child?
- Staff Report
- Published: 13:12 December 5, 2011
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- Most children keep quiet about abuse because parents aren’t open enough.
- Laws punishing those who fail to report cases of child abuse are the only way to create a safer society.
- Parents fear social stigma more than psychological damage of a child.
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