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Caseworkers often lack time, tools, money to protect children
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August 6, 1998
Web posted at: 1:58 p.m. EDT (1758 GMT)
ATLANTA (CNN) -- The number of children abused and neglected
in America has more than doubled in the last decade, while
public funding to protect children has stagnated. Most of the
million cases of child abuse each year end up on the desk of
the nation's child protective services caseworkers, who must
make life and death decisions even though they lack adequate
time, tools and money to protect children.
CNN's Linda Patillo has the story.
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