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Professionals who are legally required to report suspicions of child abuse and neglect to a child abuse hotline often do not do so. In 1988 the New York State Legislature passed a law requiring professionals to take a 2-hour course called Identification and Reporting Child Abuse and Maltreatment as a prerequisite for licensure. New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has provided...