Child Abuse Prevention: A Conversation with Kathleen Strader

Nobody Should Believe Me

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🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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This week Andrea is joined by Kathleen Strader, the National Director for Healthy Families America, the signature home visiting program of Prevent Child Abuse America. Following the Take Care of Maya film and media coverage of so-called "medical kidnapping" and misleading coverage of child abuse, we move the conversation to solutions: what can we do to prevent child abuse? We delve into Kathleen's background dealing with child abuse cases and her work supporting families through home visiting programs. Their conversation touches on the complexities of child abuse, systemic issues, and the importance of supportive measures and interventions that meet families where they are. As we wrap up our coverage of the landmark Kowalski v Johns Hopkins All Childrens case, we issue a hopeful message of how we can alleviate one of society's most challenging problems. * * * Check out Prevent Child Abuse America. Preorder Andrea's new book The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy. Click here to view our sponsors. Remember that using our codes helps advertisers know you’re listening and helps us keep making the show! Subscribe on YouTube where we have full episodes and lots of bonus content. Follow Andrea on Instagram for behind-the-scenes photos: @andreadunlop Buy Andrea's books here. To support the show, go to Patreon.com/NobodyShouldBelieveMe or subscribe on Apple Podcasts where you can get all episodes early and ad-free and access exclusive bonus content. For more information and resources on Munchausen by Proxy, please visit MunchausenSupport.com The American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children’s MBP Practice Guidelines can be downloaded here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	covering the kowalski case this season and reading so much of the adjacent media coverage
0:05.2	has honestly left me feeling a bit bleak. This idea of quote medical kidnapping
0:11.7	basically that an innocent parent could bring their child to the hospital for treatment
0:16.6	only to have them snatched away because the doctors and child welfare workers have conspired against the parents. This concept's been around for a while,
0:25.2	but in the past couple of years, we've really seen it go mainstream. Some of the pushback
0:30.8	around this issue questions the validity of medical child abuse as a diagnosis specifically.
0:37.0	And that was the case in the coverage of both my sister's case and the Kowalski case.
0:41.0	But many of these other cases in the news have to do with
0:44.9	abusive head trauma and other non-accidental injuries, which are far more
0:50.6	straightforward to diagnose than medical child abuse or munch housing by proxy.
0:55.8	Look, I understand the child abuse isn't something that people want to think about,
1:01.5	but denying its existence only protects abusers and it protects
1:06.0	them at the expense of vulnerable children. Sadly, child abuse isn't just real, it's relatively common.
1:14.0	According to a national survey on children's exposure to violence
1:18.0	that was published in Jama, that is the Journal of the American Medical Association,
1:23.5	18% of adolescents between 14 and 17
1:27.6	reported being abused by a parent.
1:30.1	And according to the Department of Health and Human Services,
1:33.2	46% of all child deaths were a result of physical abuse.
1:39.8	The truth about child abuse is a hard one, but it's the truth. This is the truth we see when we look at the real data, not just a
1:49.3	litany of anecdotal stories from parents who say they didn't do it.
1:54.0	And if we want to protect kids, we can't look away from this.
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