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Fig. 2 | Injury Epidemiology

Fig. 2

From: Child abuse and neglect experts’ determination of when a child being left home alone constitutes child neglect

Fig. 2

Percent of respondents who considered the indicated age as child abuse, if the child was left home alone for 4 h. The n value for both scenarios was 184. Comparison of a scenario where there was no “home alone” law covering the selected age and the child was not injured (closed circles) and a scenario where the child was injured and there was a relevant “home alone” law (closed squares). Asterisks (*) indicate statistically significant differences (p < 0.05) for pairwise comparisons

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