Valerie Frost argues that Kentucky’s high child abuse rank­ings tell only part of the story—and often the least impor­tant part. Data, she writes, can­not explain the gen­er­a­tional loss of sta­bil­i­ty, the impact of the opi­oid cri­sis, or the fam­i­lies dis­placed by dis­as­ters and eco­nom­ic col­lapse. After years work­ing inside Kentucky’s sys­tems, Frost says the biggest gap isn’t effort but voice: fam­i­lies’ lived expe­ri­ences are rarely cen­tered, often fil­tered, and some­times never…