Andrea Dunlop

You know, we're obviously like I think we've all, you know, having been through pregnancy and childbirth twice, you know, you sort of like baby duck imprint on the doctors that help you deliver your child.

And I think there is a genuine emotional connection, I think, between parents and doctors oftentimes that is like lovely.

But this goes way beyond that, obviously.

Because there is no actual care for the child.

Not the point.

So, yeah, they're treating that child like an object that they're using for their own purposes.

So they don't care about the child.

That's the bluntest way to say it.

They're not behaving like a loving parent and they're not caring for their child and they're depriving their child.

There's often medical neglect.

They're just not doing the regular sort of checkup things or their child might have some condition.

that they're just not all that interested in.

And so they're not actually getting the child treated for that thing.

And also, you know, they're causing issues in their child developmentally by not letting them be around their peers, by telling them they can't do certain things, by starving them, by pulling them out of school.

So the neglect is intense.

I was talking about that sort of CPS designation of medical neglect.

being different.

And I think we do need that separate medical child abuse, the over-medicalization piece as a designation so people understand that.

But yeah, there is often medical neglect and emotional and psychological neglect that comes along with this abuse.

Oh, absolutely.