Child Abuse

With all the crime going around in this crazy world, the last thing you would think that would contribute to the crime stats is child abuse. Child abuse is an ongoing problem in the world today. In 1994, over 3 million kids has been reported of some kind of child abuse. This number exactly is 3,140,000 of children abused. Overall between the years of 1985 to 1994, child abuse has increased by a stunning number of 64%. This represents 16 out of every 1000 household has child abuse present. In 1994, an estimated 1,271 child abuse and neglect related fatalities. Along with these statistics, 5.5% of students enrolled in daycare has been reported to be physically abused. So parents, think twice about daycare. These numbers are very staggering because child abuse leads to violence in the future.http://www.menweb.org/throop/abuse/studies/child-ma.html