make sure to report if a child appears to have been beaten
Explanation:
The National Association for the Education of Young Children requires childcare and education professionals to know the symptoms which are indicative of abuse and to also know the procedures or steps in handling it.
One of the symptoms of child abuse is physical beating by parents or guardians. So, this statement means the same thing as the requirement from NAEYC. To address the issue, reporting to the appropriate authorities is one of the first steps.
Because they are either ignorent and do not understand what they are doing or they do not see theirs lives as wonderful, they are trying to escape something that is going on that they do not want to deal with