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Offline endicom

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The Snitches in Your Kids’ Dental Office
« on: March 28, 2018, 03:12:18 pm »
National Review
Michelle Malkin
Mar. 28, 2018

Medical providers are teaming up with government child-welfare services to threaten families.

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth to have a despotic pediatric dentist.

Parents who decide, for whatever reason, that they don’t like their children’s oral-care provider should be forewarned. Empowered by government “mandatory reporter” laws, dental offices are now using their authority to threaten families with child-abuse charges if they don’t comply with the cavity police.

Mom Trey Hoyumpa shared a letter last week on Facebook from a dental office called Smiles 4 Keeps in Bartonsville, Pa. It informed her that if she did not make a dental appointment for “regular professional cleanings” for her child, she could be charged with “dental neglect.” Citing a law called “Pennsylvania Act 31,” on child-abuse recognition and reporting, the dental office threatened to report the mom to state authorities if she did not schedule an appointment.

More... https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/medical-providers-child-welfare-services-threaten-families/
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Offline Frank Cannon

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Re: The Snitches in Your Kids’ Dental Office
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2018, 03:50:48 pm »
Just so everyone knows, the GOP passed this bullshit in PA and it doesn't end with dentists. Funeral Directors are also charged by the state to ferret out abuse....

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All health-related licensees/certificate holders and funeral directors are considered “mandatory reporters” under section 6311 of the Child Protective Services Law (23 P.S. § 6311).  Therefore, all persons applying for issuance of an initial license or certificate from any of the health-related boards (except the State Board of Veterinary Medicine) or from the State Board of Funeral Directors are required to complete, as a condition of licensure, 3 hours of training approved by the Department of Human Services (DHS) on the topic of child abuse recognition and reporting.

http://www.dos.pa.gov/professionallicensing/boardscommissions/pages/act-31-mandated-child-abuse-recognition-and-reporting-continuing-education-providers.aspx
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