Quote: Sal Paradise "We must as always agree to disagree - I think you are sticking your head in the sand by saying we cannot provide preventative cures '"
But I neither said, nor believe, any such thing! I said the oposite. I said that the social services etc agencies have to press on with their work regardless of the inevitable flak they will get, for the reasons I gave. How could you interpret that as meaning the opposite of what it states?
Quote: Sal Paradise "... Given that the majority of child abuse is family related stopping it is possible, '"
You say this glibly, but I say it isn't possible. Steps coould and should be taken to do what we reasonably can to identify children at risk and to do what we can to try to safeguard them, but "stopping" such abuse is I'm afraid an impossible and extremely naive belief.
Quote: Sal Paradise "..the problem is the emotional complexities of the aftermath. '"
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