About 1 in 7 children experienced child abuse and/or neglect last year.[i] For a standard size classroom of 30 children, that’s at least 4 children being abused.
NATIONAL CHILD ABUSE STATISTICS
- 4 million child maltreatment referral reports received.1
- Child abuse reports involved 7.2 million children.1
- 3.4 million children received prevention & post-response services.1
- 207,000 children received foster care services.1
- 75.3% of victims are neglected.1
- 17.2% of victims are physically abused.1
- 8.4% of victims are sexually abused.1
- 6.9% of victims are psychologically maltreated.1
- Highest rate of child abuse in children under one (24.2% per 1,000).1
- Over one-quarter (27.%) of victims are younger than 3 years.1
- Annual estimate: 1,670 to 1740 children died from abuse and neglect.1,3
- Almost five children die every day from child abuse.1,2
- 80% of child fatalities involve at least one parent.1
- 74.8% of child fatalities are under the age of 3.1
- 72.9% of child abuse victims die from neglect.1
- 43.9% of child abuse victims die from physical abuse.1
- 49.4% of children who die from child abuse are under one year.1
- Almost 60,000 children are sexually abused.
- More than 90% of juvenile sexual abuse victims know their perpetrator
- Estimated that between 50-60% of maltreatment fatalities are not recorded on death certificates.
- Child abuse crosses all socioeconomic and educational levels, religions, ethnic and cultural groups.1
These statistics are sobering and sickening at the same time. No man, woman, or especially, a child deserves to be abused in any way. In this era of Me Too and Black Lives Matter, both tremendous causes long overdue, I beg you to include domestic violence and child abuse on the list.
[i] https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childabuseandneglect/fastfact.html & CAN-factsheet_2020.pdf
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