Like /u/zestier, I am a newer parent. My three year old fell off a lawn chair and hit his head on the concrete stoop a few weeks ago. I rushed him to urgent care, where they said they didn't have...
Like /u/zestier, I am a newer parent. My three year old fell off a lawn chair and hit his head on the concrete stoop a few weeks ago. I rushed him to urgent care, where they said they didn't have appropriate means to treat a toddler; raced from there to the pediatric ER. Eventually he gets seen and they're able to close his head wound. But I remember feeling so frustrated at the amount of time that went into basically interrogating myself and my wife about what happened, taking lots of photos, having three or four people in and out of the room before they even talked about sewing him up.
I was happy with his care overall, but it really made me feel bad. Like, I didn't do this to my kid! What kind of monster could? I kiss is tinyest injuries to make then feel better; I pet his back and snuggle him to sleep every night; I get up 3-5 times per night to soothe or feed or provide whatever he needs. I know these folks couldn't know that, but the feeling of having to assert my love for my kid was very strange. You could feel the suspicion in the air, and for a few moments I was really worried that I'd have to somehow prove that my kid fell over in our front yard... How would you even do that?
All this is to say that I'm sympathetic with the tone of the article. I cannot imagine how helpless a parent accused but innocent of this kind of abuse would feel. I'm glad we have safeguards in our society and people who are looking out for children. I grew up in an abusive home, and it's not a good childhood. But zeal must be tempered with absolute honesty and transparency because the damage that could be done to everyone involved if a doctor or prosecutor gets it wrong is immeasurable.
The damage is also immeasurable for the children, who are taken away from their good, innocent parents and put into foster care. Those "experts" are justifying their own jobs by destroying full...
The damage is also immeasurable for the children, who are taken away from their good, innocent parents and put into foster care. Those "experts" are justifying their own jobs by destroying full families.
I immediately thought these highlights sounded AI-generated ("Parents Left Vulnerable"), but apparently they're not. Unless AI counts as an editor that worked on the story?
I immediately thought these highlights sounded AI-generated ("Parents Left Vulnerable"), but apparently they're not.
These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.
Unless AI counts as an editor that worked on the story?
It does make sense that a deliberate effort to condense information in fewer words would seem more detached and artificial (e.g passive voice, use of bullet points over full paragraphs, not...
It does make sense that a deliberate effort to condense information in fewer words would seem more detached and artificial (e.g passive voice, use of bullet points over full paragraphs, not elaborating on the details) than the article itself, which are aspects that also noticeably show up in text generated by our current crop of LLMs.
You're Wrong About did an episode on the dubious explanation of shaken baby syndrome as a finding of abuse. Edit: I wonder if that's the podcast that the article mentions the mother being familiar...
You're Wrong About did an episode on the dubious explanation of shaken baby syndrome as a finding of abuse.
Edit: I wonder if that's the podcast that the article mentions the mother being familiar with.
holy shit. What a horrifying article. only vaugely relevant anecdote when i was three, the family dog pushed me off some stairs, and i fell ~6 feet down to a concrete floor and landed on my head....
holy shit. What a horrifying article.
only vaugely relevant anecdote
when i was three, the family dog pushed me off some stairs, and i fell ~6 feet down to a concrete floor and landed on my head. my parents didn't take me to the doctor. In retrospect, this was probably due to a combination of this sort of absolute bullshit, and also the hslda recommendations that people keep their homeschooled kids away from cps/cops/whatever at all costs lest they imprison the parents for exercising their pArEntAL riGhTs of educational neglect.
Like /u/zestier, I am a newer parent. My three year old fell off a lawn chair and hit his head on the concrete stoop a few weeks ago. I rushed him to urgent care, where they said they didn't have appropriate means to treat a toddler; raced from there to the pediatric ER. Eventually he gets seen and they're able to close his head wound. But I remember feeling so frustrated at the amount of time that went into basically interrogating myself and my wife about what happened, taking lots of photos, having three or four people in and out of the room before they even talked about sewing him up.
I was happy with his care overall, but it really made me feel bad. Like, I didn't do this to my kid! What kind of monster could? I kiss is tinyest injuries to make then feel better; I pet his back and snuggle him to sleep every night; I get up 3-5 times per night to soothe or feed or provide whatever he needs. I know these folks couldn't know that, but the feeling of having to assert my love for my kid was very strange. You could feel the suspicion in the air, and for a few moments I was really worried that I'd have to somehow prove that my kid fell over in our front yard... How would you even do that?
All this is to say that I'm sympathetic with the tone of the article. I cannot imagine how helpless a parent accused but innocent of this kind of abuse would feel. I'm glad we have safeguards in our society and people who are looking out for children. I grew up in an abusive home, and it's not a good childhood. But zeal must be tempered with absolute honesty and transparency because the damage that could be done to everyone involved if a doctor or prosecutor gets it wrong is immeasurable.
The damage is also immeasurable for the children, who are taken away from their good, innocent parents and put into foster care. Those "experts" are justifying their own jobs by destroying full families.
I immediately thought these highlights sounded AI-generated ("Parents Left Vulnerable"), but apparently they're not.
Unless AI counts as an editor that worked on the story?
It does make sense that a deliberate effort to condense information in fewer words would seem more detached and artificial (e.g passive voice, use of bullet points over full paragraphs, not elaborating on the details) than the article itself, which are aspects that also noticeably show up in text generated by our current crop of LLMs.
You're Wrong About did an episode on the dubious explanation of shaken baby syndrome as a finding of abuse.
Edit: I wonder if that's the podcast that the article mentions the mother being familiar with.
holy shit. What a horrifying article.
only vaugely relevant anecdote
when i was three, the family dog pushed me off some stairs, and i fell ~6 feet down to a concrete floor and landed on my head. my parents didn't take me to the doctor. In retrospect, this was probably due to a combination of this sort of absolute bullshit, and also the hslda recommendations that people keep their homeschooled kids away from cps/cops/whatever at all costs lest they imprison the parents for exercising their pArEntAL riGhTs of educational neglect.