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By Barbara Wi llard
Rappahannock News Writer
A social worker has to have one of the toughest jobs in human services.
Day after day they deal with families that care about their children, families that don’t care about their children and families that are just indifferent about their children.
Day after day the social worker also takes reports of child abuse and neglect and is mandated to investigate those reports. Hats off to the folks enforcing child abuse and neglect laws.
The statistics reporting child abuse and neglect on any given day in Virginia are numerous and shameful. Most citizens think that “child abuse” is limited to physical harm.
In reality, child abuse includes physical abuse; physical neglect; sexual abuse; and emotional maltreatment. Physical injuries, severe neglect, and malnutrition are more readily detectable than the subtle, less visible injuries which result from emotional maltreatment or sexual abuse.
However, any abuse that endangers or impairs a child’s physical or emotional health and development demands attention.
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