Among the many truisms Family & Children’s Place regularly shares is that “there is no excuse for child abuse.” We do it on Twitter, on Facebook and Instagram, with and without hashtags. So we continue to be surprised and outraged when people make excuses for things such as not reporting abuse – often of their own child. Such was the case in Gwinnett County, Georgia, near Atlanta, where a mother blamed her “hectic work schedule,” for not telling police that her boyfriend sexually abused her six-year-old daughter. Too busy at work to protect her daughter? Shocking, and appalling. The child’s […]