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Reports On Child Abuse

from: ParentingKidsToday.com

Many different agencies and child protection services contribute to reports on child abuse statistics, and try to track abuse trends while also trying to find a way to help stop the heinous, abusive crimes whenever possible. Statistics concerning child abuse are normally used in a way to help determine where and to whom social service resources should go. Statistics indicate that in the US, four children die each day as the result of abuse, and most are younger than four years old.

The increase in the statistics may have something to do with the fact that more people now report child abuse than ever before. Every year millions of innocent children are helpless targets of horrifying atrocities, suffering ill treatment, exploitation and brutality. The consequences of abuse on children are overwhelming. Naturally, it poses a threat to their lives, yet if they do survive the abuse it still leaves devastating adverse affects on their physical and mental health.

Perhaps one of the saddest statistics on child abuse is that the victims are much more likely to abuse their children in the future because of the deep impact the abuse left on them. It is a difficult cycle to break. Unfortunately, the plight of these children often remains suppressed in silence, yet their exploitation is very real. While the world is morally fuming at the abuse that some children endure, some of the laws that are meant to protect children from abuse are commonly met with confrontation. This may be because the ill-treatment usually takes place in private, with the children of abuse secretly enduring, while the offender openly denies.

Amazingly, there are several loopholes, with regard to child protection issues, as UNICEF has identified six special conditions of child abuse. They include bonded or forced labor, as over 300 million children are forced into child labor. Human trafficking represents an estimated 1.2 million kids who are illegally trafficked every year. Sexual exploitation accounts for about 1 million exploited children every year in the multibillion dollar flesh trade. Children are also used as soldiers, and as many as 2 million have died as a direct result of war and armed conflict in the last decade. Separation from parents, which means being deprived from their primary means of protection for various reasons, and violence in homes and in schools are forms of punishment and torture that are very common forms of child abuse.

As the statistics on child abuse cross ethnic, socioeconomic and religious lines, no group is exempt from experiencing the horror of child abuse. That is one reason why emergency room doctors, child care professionals and many others are just as suspicious of abuse to a child from a well to do family as they would be from a low income family. Everyone has the responsibility to help stop abuse against children. If there is a hint that it might be happening, then a child abuse report should be filed, just in case.

ParentingKidsToday.com