Introduction

~Child abuse is the physical, emotional, or sexual mistreatment of a child.
==== ~﻿In The US the Center for Disease Control and Prevention define child maltreatment as any act or series of acts of commission or omission by parent or other caregiver that results in harm, potential for harm, or threat of harm to a child. ====

~84% of prison inmates were abused as children

~More than 80% of abusers are a parent or someone close to the child, abuse is way more likely to occur at home than at a daycare

~One in three girls and one in five boys were sexually abused by an adult at sometime during childhood

~ Everyday about four children die in the US as a result of child abuse and neglect, most of them babies or toddlers

~Neglect is the most common form of child abuse taking up about 60% of all forms of abuse

~About 10% of babies born are born to drug using mothers

~1 in 13 children living with a drug using parent are abused regularly

~Over 3 million child abuse reports are made every year in the US

~In 2007 about 5.8 million children were involved in an estimated 3.2 million child abuse reports and allegations

~About 30% of abused children will grow up to be an abuser