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Licenseship And Child Abuse

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Child welfare agencies nation wide received approximately 2.8 million reports of child abuse or neglect in 2000. From those reports, the Urban Institute determined that states spent at least 20 billion dollars on child welfare services that year alone. Tropman (1984) debated the benefits and limitations concerning a licenseship that a parent would need to acquire before having children. With these astonishing statistics, should more laws or regulations similar to a parent’s licenseship be implicated by the government to cure this epidemic? There is an enormous responsibly for taking on the role of a parent to ensure that the child prospers physically, mentally, and emotionally. However, unlike the ability to drive a car there are no requirements

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