Swearing in an essay
So a friend just proof-read something for me and has strongly suggest I take something out. Basically I've written an example of sexual abuse and the short version is a toddler communicating witnessing sexual abuse through play. He can be seen playing with 2 dolls and putting them in sexually suggestive poses. I basically wrote that this is noteworthy but not concrete in itself.
I then put after watching the child further the practitioner makes out a couple of babbled words 'yeah b**ch' and 'f**k you'. Combined with the previous suggestive poses the practitioner infers that the child has indeed witnessed something.
Am I really going to get into trouble for that? I kinda don't want to take it out because it's in quotation marks and perfectly valid and relevant to the example. In real practice you would record exactly what a toddler has said anyway.
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