[RandomBacon]

I appreciate that mandatory reporting laws exist for evidence of abuse, and to an extent, suspicion of abuse; but does your training say that children left alone less than a few hours, is abuse or is suspicious by itself, and needs to be reported?

There is always the possibility for anything, so that cannot be the bar.

[bluGill]

My training is if there is any possibility of anything report. They specifically told me not to think. Telling me a few hours is okay would mean I now have something to think about and I'm not allowed to do think.

[RandomBacon]

> any possibility of anything

How do I report you for taking the time to reply here instead of reporting that Amy, Brad, Charlie, Drake, Emily, everyone, etc.. parents all have the possibility of abusing them, that their siblings all have the possibility of abusing them, that their friends all have the possibility of abusing them, that their teachers all have the possibility abusing them, that you could be a victim of carbon monoxide poisoning and not remember that you could also be abusing them, that the police have the possibility of abusing them, that secret agents could be sneaking into their house at night and abusing them.

If that was your instructions, then your full-time job should be making reports and nothing else.

See how absurd your instructions were, or what you think your instructions were?

[bluGill]

I'm reporting what the instructions are, not what I think about them.

[RandomBacon]

Unfortunately bad instructions and no one getting those instructions changed, helps lead to this nonsense that we hear about in the news, and the thousand (tens of thousands? hundreds of thousands?) cases that are just as bad but not as newsworthy.