The New York Times (12/17, Jacobs) reports that researchers have “found a nearly fourfold increase in confirmed reports of child abuse on the Saturdays immediately after the distribution of report cards at Florida public schools.” The findings were published in JAMA Pediatrics.
Reuters (12/17, Rapaport) reports that the study indicated “abuse cases were more than three times more likely to happen on Saturdays after a report-card Friday than on Saturdays when children hadn’t gotten their grades the day before.” The increase “in abuse only appeared when report cards came home on Fridays, not when kids received them on other days of the week.”
Related Links:
— “When Report Cards Go Out on Fridays, Child Abuse Increases on Saturdays, Study Finds, “Julia Jacobs, The New York Times, December 17, 2018.