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When You Suspect Child Neglect in Your Community

My neighbor's teenage son has been coming to our house asking for food and I suspect he's being neglected but I don't want to destroy their family.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The impulse to protect children confronts the fear of causing greater harm through intervention.

Ideas that help explain it
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