Stuck at home, separated from teachers, children may have faced more severe abuse during pandemic, research suggests

Stuck at home, separated from teachers, children may have faced more severe abuse during pandemic, research suggests

Jodi Quas, a professor of psychological and nursing science at the University of California, Irvine, is currently studying patterns of abuse in a large, unnamed Southern California county. In an interview with The 74, she said that it “makes sense, when you think about family stress and economic insecurity,” that child abuse and neglect would grow more severe during times of intense upheaval.