Yay! I'm glad you're so attached to them. I love these guys too. Feel free to prompt for more about them. I have several poems written but not yet sponsored in this thread, and ideas for more beyond that.
>> Does Terramagne have Mandatory Reporters? If so, the school nurse is definitely one. <<
I think in Terramagne it's more like "strongly recommended" than "mandatory." Superpowers change the context, a lot, when it comes to judgment calls about what is or is not safe to do. They would logically have mandatory training on how to identify and address abuse, and the school nurse would have that. In this case, yes, she chose to report the abuse and that was probably the option with the lowest risk of serious harm.
If someone knows about abuse but chooses to remain silent, they had better have a damn good reason, because they'll have to defend the decision if the situation is revealed later.
That said, outcomes are consistently better when people willingly accept help than when someone else intervenes forcefully. Rupturing an abuse survivor's remaining agency is not a good thing. You have to weigh the inevitable harm of unwelcome intervention against the possible harm of the status quo. It's a situation of "step up into a lifeboat from a sinking ship." Unless someone is in immediate danger, a gentler approach yields better results.
Terramagne does have the advantage of better-funded social services and more evidence-based policies for handling problems. And it still sucks sometimes, with instances like what happened in this poem, or Lakia's unfortunate experiences in foster care. (Her parents are both drug addicts, a case where she clearly needed to be moved elsewhere; but then she got abused inside the system.) A serious and rapidly growing problem is that superkids have special needs that ordinary adults are rarely equipped to meet, but there are nowhere near enough adult soups to take care of them, because the manifestation rate is rising while the age of activation is dropping. Superkids therefore tend to have even worse experiences in foster care than ordinary kids do.
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*hugs* Yeah, this is an ouchy episode.
>> I so want a happy ending for these two. <<
Yay! I'm glad you're so attached to them. I love these guys too. Feel free to prompt for more about them. I have several poems written but not yet sponsored in this thread, and ideas for more beyond that.
>> Does Terramagne have Mandatory Reporters? If so, the school nurse is definitely one. <<
I think in Terramagne it's more like "strongly recommended" than "mandatory." Superpowers change the context, a lot, when it comes to judgment calls about what is or is not safe to do. They would logically have mandatory training on how to identify and address abuse, and the school nurse would have that. In this case, yes, she chose to report the abuse and that was probably the option with the lowest risk of serious harm.
If someone knows about abuse but chooses to remain silent, they had better have a damn good reason, because they'll have to defend the decision if the situation is revealed later.
That said, outcomes are consistently better when people willingly accept help than when someone else intervenes forcefully. Rupturing an abuse survivor's remaining agency is not a good thing. You have to weigh the inevitable harm of unwelcome intervention against the possible harm of the status quo. It's a situation of "step up into a lifeboat from a sinking ship." Unless someone is in immediate danger, a gentler approach yields better results.
Terramagne does have the advantage of better-funded social services and more evidence-based policies for handling problems. And it still sucks sometimes, with instances like what happened in this poem, or Lakia's unfortunate experiences in foster care. (Her parents are both drug addicts, a case where she clearly needed to be moved elsewhere; but then she got abused inside the system.) A serious and rapidly growing problem is that superkids have special needs that ordinary adults are rarely equipped to meet, but there are nowhere near enough adult soups to take care of them, because the manifestation rate is rising while the age of activation is dropping. Superkids therefore tend to have even worse experiences in foster care than ordinary kids do.