NATIONAL+Child+abuse+stadistics+U.S.A



http://www.childhelp.org/resources/learning-center/statistics

If you go to this page it shows the statistics of how many deads per day are caused because of child abuse in the U.S.A and the statistics of how many reports of child abuse are made, also it shows a line graph of how it has changed throudh years.

Tatiana

 = Child Abuse Statistics  = The problem is large and is increasing.

Saying anything beyond that seems meaningless. Every attempt to measure incidence to date has been flawed. The estimates range from less than 5 percent to more than 40 percent of all children. The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN), part of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services compiles data about the number of cases reported to Child Protective Services (CPS) each year, but the fact is the number of reported cases is small compared with the number of actual cases. We can reason this by looking at several studies which asked adults about childhood abuse. Adults are more likely to report their own childhood abuse because they no longer live in fear of immediate retaliation from the abuser and they have had time to recover from the psychological effects of living in an abusive household. ...go to this link to read more. []

Laura.

As we can see the children from 0-3 years are the most affected and abused. We can also notice that the less age the children have, the more they're abused. My hypothesis is that, the children under 3 are really innocent and are not going to present any problems because they doesn't know how to call authorities and care centers. While teenager from 16-17 are stronger and can make a bigger problem if they have been abused.

Effects
Children with a history of neglect or physical abuse are at risk of developing [|psychiatric] problems, or a [|disorganized attachment style]. Disorganized attachment is associated with a number of developmental problems, including [|dissociative] symptoms,[|]] as well as anxiety, depressive, and acting-out symptoms. A study by Dante Cicchetti found that 80% of abused and maltreated infants exhibited symptoms of [|disorganized attachment]. Victims of childhood abuse, it is claimed, also suffer from different types of physical health problems later in life. Some reportedly suffer from some type of chronic head, abdominal, pelvic, or muscular pain with no identifiable reason. Even though the majority of childhood abuse victims know or believe that their abuse is, or can be, the cause of different health problems in their adult life, for the great majority their abuse was not directly associated with those problems, indicating that sufferers were most likely diagnosed with other possible causes for their health problems, instead of their childhood abuse. The effects of child abuse vary, depending on its type. A 2006 study found that childhood emotional and sexual abuse were strongly related to adult [|depressive] symptoms, while exposure to verbal abuse and witnessing of domestic violence had a moderately strong association, and physical abuse a moderate one. For depression, experiencing more than two kinds of abuse exerted synergetically stronger symptoms. Sexual abuse was particularly deleterious in its intrafamilial form, for symptoms of depression, [|anxiety], dissociation, and limbic irritability.[//[|clarification needed]//] Childhood verbal abuse had a stronger association with anger-hostility than any other type of abuse studied, and was second only to emotional abuse in its relationship with dissociative symptoms. More generally, in the case of 23 of the 27 illnesses listed in the questionnaire of a French [|INSEE] survey, some statistically significant correlations were found between repeated illness and family traumas encountered by the child before the age of 18 years.[|[26]] These relationships show that inequality in terms of illness and suffering is not only social. It has also its origins in the [|family], where it is associated with the degrees of lasting affective problems (lack of affection, parental discord, the prolonged absence of a parent, or a serious illness affecting either the mother or father) that individuals report having experienced in childhood.