Angelina Jolie has urged her fellow Americans to keep in touch with at-risk families during the coronavirus lockdown and report child abuse fears to the authorities.
In a new article for Time magazine, the 44-year-old mother-of-six admits she’s worried about the safety of children in self-isolation, because the stay-at-home guidelines play into the hands of perverts and abusers. “(They are) especially vulnerable to so many of the secondary impacts of the pandemic on society,” the Oscar winner and humanitarian writes. “Isolating a victim from family and friends is a well-known tactic of control by abusers, meaning that the social distancing that is necessary to stop COVID-19 is one that will inadvertently fuel a direct rise in trauma and
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