How Do You Know When to Report Child Abuse?
If You See Something, Say Something: How Do You Know When to Report Child Abuse? During the coronavirus pandemic, reports of child abuse in Georgia dropped precipitously. According to many experts, that’s probably not a good thing. Coronavirus lockdowns were hard on everyone, especially from a financial standpoint. People who were barely making ends meet […]
Breaking Down Georgia’s Child Abuse Laws
For centuries after Europeans arrived in the 1600s, American children were legally the property of their parents or guardians. The first children’s rights advocacy groups formed in the late 1800s. But there were still no child abuse laws. If prosecutors pursued child abuse cases, which were not very likely, they charged abusers with violating animal […]
