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Impact Story / Jan 15, 2025

Changing the Story: How 20 Years of Framing Shaped Public Thinking about Child Wellbeing

When the FrameWorks Institute was founded in 1999, experts in the “child maltreatment” field, as it was then known, were puzzled that evocative depictions of child abuse were not generating greater public concern. Was it a question of Americans not caring enough or was something deeper contributing to the lack of public support? 

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