Children are suffering from a hidden epidemic of child abuse and neglect. Every year 3.3 million reports of child abuse are made in the United States involving nearly 6 million children. Child abuse occurs at every socioeconomic level, across ethnic and cultural lines, within all religions and at all levels of education.
The United States has the worst record in the industrialized nation losing five children every day due to abuse-related deaths.
A report of child abuse is made every ten seconds
More than 37 children die every day as a result of child abuse.
80% of children that die from abuse are under the age of 4.
70%of child fatalities due to maltreatment are not recorded as such on death certificates.
90% of juvenile sexual abuse victims know their perpetrator in some way.
The estimated annual cost of child abuse and neglect in the United States for 2008...ONE HUNDRED TWENTY FOUR BILLION DOLLARS!!! tion.
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Child Abuse...A Generational Plague
1. CHILD ABUSE:
A Generational
Plague
More then FIVE Children...DIE everyday...
In the United States>>>
as a result of child abuse. WW=JD?
Proverbs 10: 9
He who walks with integrity walks securely,
But he who perverts his ways will become known!
2. Child Abuse occurs at every socioeconomic
level, across ethnic and cultural lines, within
all religions and at all levels of education.
Morethen
FIVE Children, DIE
everyday in the
United States
as a
result
of
child abuse...
A report
of child abuse
is made
every
TEN seconds...
WW-JD?
4. Children who experience
child abuse are...
59% more likely to
be arrested as a
juvenile...
...28% more likely
to be arrested
as an adult,
and
30% more likely to
commit violent crime.
5. In 2010, more than one third of
young families with children were
living in poverty.
Thepercentageofthosefamiliesinpovertyin2010was37
percent,surpassingtheprevioushighof36percentin
1993.
Household income decreased in every
region of the U.S. from 2007 to 2010.
More then...FIVE Children DIE EVERYDAY, in the United States From Child
Abuse!!
6. Poverty is at it's lowest level, in the
sixty-five years since being recorded
Morethan
49 million
Americans live
in poverty.
Children of families
with income levels below
$15,000 annually,
are 25 times more likely
to be neglected and/or
abused.
7. Over the past 10 years, more than 20,000
American children are believed to have been
killed in their own homes by family members.
Approximately 80% of children that die from
abuse are under the age of 4.
Between 50-60% of child fatalities due to
maltreatment are not recorded as such on death
certificates.
FIVEChildrenDIEEVERYDAYintheUnitedStatesFromChildAbuse!
8. More then...FIVE Children DIE
everyday...
The estimated annual cost
of child abuse and neglect
in the United States
for 2007
is $104 billion.
9. Agenerational sin,orgenerational curse,is
whenwepracticethesins ofourforefathers,
andthesesinful behavioralpatternsare
ingrainedwithinus,andtheyhaveremained in
ourhouseholdsandfamiliesformany
Generations.
More then FIVE Children DIE EVERYDAY, in the United States From
Child Abuse!!
IN GOD I/WE TRUST>>>
10. Child Abuse comprises four basic types of
mistreatment:
1. Neglect: abuse in which a perpetrator is responsible
to provide care for a victim who is unable to care for
them self, but fails to provide adequate care.
2. Physical abuse: abuse involving physical contact intended to
cause feeling of intimidation. Physical injury, or other physical
suffering or bodily harm.
3. Psychological abuse: a form of abuse characterized
by a person, subjecting or exposing another to behavior
that may result in psychological trauma.
4. Child sexual abuse: abuse in which an adult or older
adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation.
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Editor's Notes
#4: FIVE Children DIE everyday, as a result of abuse.
#6: Census Shows 1 in 2 People are Poor or Low-Income Updated: Thursday, 15 Dec 2011, 9:19 AM MST Published : Thursday, 15 Dec 2011, 9:19 AM MST By HOPE YEN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans nearly 1 in 2 have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earnings that classify them as low income. http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/money/census-USLow-Income-America-apx-12152011