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The media and the myth of the unharmed child

two sad children standing outside of a crime scene

Childhood Trauma

Boys stop to look at a memorial for Justin Wallace, a ten-year-old boy who was fatally shot June 5, 2021 in Far Rockaway. (Mark Lennihan/AP)

August 4, 2022

By Sarah Terrell, doctoral student in human development and family studies at Penn State; and Diana Fishbein, PRC affiliate faculty member (Originally published in the New York Daily News)

The media and the myth of the unharmed child

two sad children standing outside of a crime scene

Childhood Trauma

Boys stop to look at a memorial for Justin Wallace, a ten-year-old boy who was fatally shot June 5, 2021 in Far Rockaway. (Mark Lennihan/AP)

August 4, 2022

By Sarah Terrell, doctoral student in human development and family studies at Penn State; and Diana Fishbein, PRC affiliate faculty member (Originally published in the New York Daily News)

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