maltreatment
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"Investments to address childhood maltreatment have the potential to avert millions of cases of mental disorders in Australia."
From Science Daily ● May 8, 2024
Another study showed that segments of neighborhoods with maintained lawns had lower rates of child maltreatment.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 14, 2023
The same goes for Pierce County, where caseworkers investigating child maltreatment now leave kids with their parents 43% more often than they did a year ago.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
But in 1967, a shocking report by the News Of The World revealed endemic maltreatment of patients there.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2023
The Cyclopes and the Titans he left at large; and Earth, enraged at the maltreatment of her other children, appealed to them to help her.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
