Mass. Child Abuse Reports Plummet 50% During Pandemic, But Advocates Fear Hidden Crisis

Children at risk of unreported abuse and neglect during pandemic isolation; cases that are reported show increased severity including drug overdoses and physical trauma.

Across Massachusetts, a troubling silence has settled over the systems designed to protect children: as schools close and routines dissolve under pandemic lockdowns, reports of child abuse have fallen by half — not because children are safer, but because the adults trained to notice suffering can no longer see them. The drop from two thousand weekly reports to nine hundred is less a sign of relief than a measure of blindness, a reminder that protection depends not only on harm occurring but on someone being present to witness it. In moments of collective crisis, the most vulnerable often vanis

Mass. Child Abuse Reports Plummet 50% During Pandemic, But Advocates Fear Hidden Crisis

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