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Experts are concerned about increasing child distress and maltreatment alongside decreasing exposure to mandated child abuse reporters, such as teachers, during the COVID-19 pandemic.1 Hotlines may serve as alternate means to identify family violence and support at-risk children. This study assessed the volume of calls and texts to a national child abuse hotline during the pandemic compared with the prior year.
In our country, there is a report of child abuse every 10 seconds and nearly 3.3 million reports of child abuse are made annually. Five children die each day from abuse and neglect, and that is five too many. But these numbers only scratch the surface. Across the nation, reports of abuse often go unchecked simply because an abused child or someone who witnesses or suspects abuse suffers long wait times when he or she calls a hotline to get help.
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