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Child Abuse Realities In The USThe statistics on Child Abuse in the US have been very unclear and do not give us a complete picture of how many children are actually being abused. Various national studies give some information, though they collect and analyze information in different ways. The same is true of studies done by State agencies. In addition, not all cases are are reported. Regardless of clear data, enough data does show that many Children in the US are being abused.The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System, (NCANDS), has worked in the past decade to create a more concise picture of Child Abuse in the US. This has led to the gathering of information from the States and the publication of the Child Maltreatment 1997: Reports from the States to the (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1997). This report gives us some alarming facts. According to the report, published in 1998, with statistics for the years 1990 through 1996, approximately 3,000,000 children were reported for abuse and/or neglect to public social service/child protective services agencies. That means reports were filed on about 1 child out of every 25 children in the U.S. Investigations that were carried out on those reprots showed that 1 in 3 Children, 1,000,000 Children, were abused or neglected. Of the remaining 2,000,000 reports, only 4% were found to be false. Often times information that might have substantiated the existence of abuse was not available and the case resulted in either "unknown finding," "closed without finding," or "other." Consequently, the number of abused children could be higher than the found one million. Type of Maltreatment Suffered by ChildrenOf the 1,000,000 confirmed cases of Child Abuse in 1995, the type of abuse suffered broke down into the following forms of mistreatment.
Age of Child VictimsYounger children were shown to be more at risk than older children.
Who Is Reporting AbuseEducators were responsible for more reports than any other adults interacting with Children.
Who Are The Perpetrators of Abuse and Neglect
FatalitiesIt is important to note that these statistics taken for 1997 from 41 states, reflect that many deaths that were the result of abuse, may not have been reported as such by Law Enforcement Agencies. Still the numbers are alarming. Again, younger children are at greater risk.
Services Are Not Allways Recieved By Abused Children
An Increase In Reported CasesNCANDS collected the following statistics from 1990 to the 1996.
From Numbers To AwarenessEven without clear and precise numbers of abuse cases, the need to find solutions to end violence against Children in the US becomes apparent. There are solutions and help for families at risk. Thanks to this project and the ongoing work of NCANDS and other concerned agencies, we can see the scope of the problem and use this information to inspire us to create change and healing for the Children of our country.For more information, NCANDS has placed much information online that can help all of us stop Child Abuse. Thanks For Caring! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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