Child abuse investigations: fibbing and fudging are wrong

Article: Child abuse investigations: fibbing and fudging are wrong.(legal notes)
Article from:Policy & Practice Article date:December 1, 2009Author:Pollack, DanielCopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2009 American Public Human Services Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)


Fibbing: A trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear. Perhaps a derivative of the word 'fable.'

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Fibbing and fudging accusations are rampant: schools do it regarding graduation rates, job applicants do it on resumes, "respected" researchers have been caught doing it in the academic, medical and scientific communities, governments and economists are accused of unethical number crunching.

Child abuse and neglect investigations are all about truth-seeking. And yet, child protection workers are frequently in a quandary--they must resist the strong tendency to shade the truth. In clear-cut cases of abuse or neglect ...

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