Example sentences for: child-protective

How can you use “child-protective” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Child-protective agencies are already overwhelmed investigating about 2 million reports a year, two-thirds of which are dismissed as unfounded or inappropriate.

  • But child-protective agencies usually avoid these cases because they tend to involve subjective judgments, and there is little that a quasi-law-enforcement agency can do about them.

  • These are cases where the child was not actually harmed by parental abuse or neglect, but was "in danger of being harmed according to the views of community professionals or child-protective service agencies" [emphasis added].

  • And even if they did report these instances, child-protective agencies would still be expected to screen them out.


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