‘Duty to report’ child abuse laws will not apply to doctors, teachers or nurses

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• ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Anyone else feel like the country needs to be specified on posts…

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  • Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I completely agree. Lemmy is a global community after all.

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    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But reddit was US centered!

      /s

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  • DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    100% yes!

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The ones most likely to see evidence of abuse. Of course. Makes perfect sense.

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  • Hacksaw@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Duty to report laws aren’t what you think, and they’re not always good. Everyone CAN report. Duty to report makes it illegal for them not to.

    Let’s say a kid shows up to school with a bruise, the teacher asks how did you get that. The kid trusts the teacher and answers “my parents hurt me when I don’t behave”. If the teacher is mandated to report an inquiry is started immediately, but since it’s only one bruise and kids get hurt all the time, the parents get away with it. Now the kid gets abused even more for telling the teacher, and the kid realises that telling the teacher the truth will only make more problems. Next time it happens he tells the teacher “I fell”

    If the teacher is able to exercise discretion, they can accumulate evidence until the odds of success are worth breaking the kids trust for their own interest.

    Now doctors and nurses are less likely to have a long term relationship with children and having a duty to report means they don’t have to listen to excuses and can just shrug and say “I’m sorry, I’m mandated to report these types of injuries” so they can actually be helped by these laws.

    Child abuse is a very delicate situation and easy answers are few and far between.

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  • applepie@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hey this is a step up, at least we don't send victims of abuse to let's say... Catholic priests anymore... mostly.

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• SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Here’s a reminder that clergy has never been legally required to report child abuse.

  Just throwing that out there.

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  • plz1@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’d collide with their 5th Amendment rights, in the US, anyways. Not /s, f the church.

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• Drusas@kbin.run ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In other words, the people it should most apply to. What a joke.

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  • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ah yes, the doctors and nurses, which ends up with the parents not taking their abused child to a doctor anymore, cause they absolutely have to report it. Same reason why doctors don’t report drug usage to the police - they want to save your ass, not put you in jail.

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    • Drusas@kbin.run ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You have no idea what you're talking about. Teachers are the most likely people to recognize abuse in a child.

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• Wolfman86@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Then what is the point?

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• olicvb@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Anyone knows where the reporting line is drawn? Like could they still report by proxy, like a doctor nudging someone towards discovering & reporting the abuse?

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  • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They can still report it, they just don’t have to.

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  • Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This doesn’t stop doctors, nurses and teachers from reporting abuse, it just exempts them from the law that compels them to report abuse.

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• keepcarrot@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That is a bonkers stipulation put in a law

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