CampingJosh

CampingJosh t1_ixe96wk wrote

Reply to comment by Consistent_Ease828 in Damn by Popomatik

The report doesn't say that Maine is #1 in child abuse. It doesn't say anything about the rate of child abuse in Maine in comparison to the rate of child abuse in other states. It says that Maine is #1 in child abuse reporting, which is a different thing.

Reporting known and suspected instances of child abuse is a good thing to do. I worked in youth-serving nonprofits for 17 years, and I had to make that call dozens of times personally.

Nobody is trying to frame child abuse in a positive light; you can leave the poor straw man alone.

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CampingJosh t1_ixdnb12 wrote

Reply to comment by Consistent_Ease828 in Damn by Popomatik

Right. Indicating that you actually don't love framing child abuse into a positive headline.

But it still shows that you didn't understand the post that you were responding to.

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CampingJosh t1_ixd7opc wrote

Reply to comment by Consistent_Ease828 in Damn by Popomatik

Uh... I think they mean that Mainers could be doing relatively better at reporting and investigating.

That doesn't in any way frame child abuse positively.

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