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Peer reviewedHutchison, Elizabeth D. – Social Work, 1993
After brief history of development of mandatory reporting laws to protect children from maltreatment and evaluation of assumptions underlying use of these laws for case finding, analyzes costs and benefits of reporting laws for four stakeholders (state, professionals, families, and children) and concludes that costs of laws outweigh benefits.…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Child Welfare, Legal Responsibility
