** This event responds to the growing concern that many parents are isolated and overwhelmed and need support. The Covid-19 pandemic has intensified parental loneliness, anxiety and isolation that is linked to an increase in child neglect, abuse, spanking, and yelling.
(S.J. Lee,Parental Social Isolation and Child Maltreatment Risk during the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2021) (C. M Rodriguez,The Perfect Storm: Hidden Risk of Child Maltreatment During the Covid-19 Pandemic, 2020) and (C. M. Rodriguez,Parental Social Isolation and Child Maltreatment Risk During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020)