After confinement, shouldn't school have been compulsory, rather than giving families the choice? “ It is not the abusing parents who are going to demand a return to school so that their children can get better! "Sums up Martine Balençon, pediatrician and expert at the Rennes Court of Appeal. " In a caricature, being confined with an abusive parent is more dangerous than having a Kawasaki (this rare childhood disease affecting the arteries, which could affect children with Covid-19, note) ”, She explains.
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" Confinement has seen a jump in domestic accidents, and never have calls to the 119 made by children (for themselves and others) been so numerous ", adds Martine Balençon. Pediatrician at the Rennes University Hospital, she holds consultations with abused children. She is one of 20 presidents of learned pediatric societies who, in a column published on May 13 in Le Quotidien du docteur , are calling for the return of
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