Child Protection Frameworks weakness

He got arrested because he stole from his boss, ran over pigeons and shoved his underage girlfriend. Social workers of the state received a report that the parents were neglecting the infant, but records show that the only offered low-risk protection because the children were not in danger at the moment. One month later, Christopher killed his baby by shaking him for thirty seconds (Mckim, 2015). It’s hard for one to imagine that someone would intentionally hurt a child. Child abuse is an international problem with almost one million children abused yearly in the United States of America alone (Vieth, Bottoms, & Perona, 2014). Child protection may become possible if abuse and neglect are classified by degree and motive instead of by nature of the injury.