Reports On Child Abuse
In Identity Theft of CreditGuru (September 5, 2010 2:53 am)
There are many agencies that report on child abuse statistics. These agencies attempt to find possible trends and of course find a way to help stop child abuse wherever and whenever possible. These statistics are generally used to try and find to whom and where social service resources ought to be directed. The statistics tell us that four children, right here in the United States, die each day as the direct result of abuse and three out of the four of these precious souls are under four years of age.
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.
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