Before I got my learner s permit, Dad began teaching me how to drive in the Towne Square Mall parking lot. It could ve gone better, to be honest.
I don t mean to make it sound like it was a full-on disaster, but I had never got in behind the wheel of any vehicle and so it was ALL new to me. Additionally, he was teaching me in his old Datsun pick-up truck, which was a stick shift. Looking back, that was like skipping Algebra I and starting with Algebra II. I simply could NOT get the clutch-shift combo that first time and he got pretty frustrated with me.
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Updated April 16, 2021 | 11:09 pm
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Kentucky continues to lead the nation in child abuse and neglect for the third year in a row, according to the latest report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Based on that data, the state’s child abuse rate was 20.1 cases per 1,000 children the national average was 8.9.
The latest report covered the federal fiscal year 2019. Kentucky also led the country in child abuse rates in the 2017 (22.2 cases ber 1,000 children) and 2018 (23.6) reports, and ranked second for a few years prior.
No other state in the three most recent reports topped 20 cases per 1,000 children.