APNewsBreak: US Study Shows Drop in Child Abuse – ABC News
A massive new federal study documents an unprecedented and dramatic decrease in incidents of serious child abuse, especially sexual abuse. Experts hailed the findings as proof that crackdowns and public awareness campaigns had made headway.
Fort Lauderdale – (AP) — About 200 children were fatally abused in Florida in 2008, a roughly 20 percent increase from 2007. Unemployment rates and drug use also increased in the state — a factor in many of the deaths, according to a preliminary report.
N.J. study of child abuse says welfare workers overlook family problem – NJ.com
TRENTON — Child welfare workers too often overlooked family problems caused by mental illness, domestic violence, and drug and alcohol addiction before children died from abuse and neglect in 2007, according to a report issued today by the New Jersey Child Fatality and Near Fatality Review Board.
According to data released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in Child Maltreatment 2006, an estimated 905,000 children were found to be victims of abuse or neglect in fiscal year (FY) 2006, representing a rate of 12.1 per 1,000 children in the population. The number and rate of victims has decreased since 2002, when there were an estimated 910,000 victims at a rate of 12.3 per 1,000 children.
The Children’s Aid Societies says more than 29,000 children in Ontario were abused or neglected last year, an increase of 24 per cent since 2000-2001.
Indiana child abuse, neglect deaths hold steady | IndyStar.com
Fifty-three Indiana children died from abuse and neglect from July 1, 2005 through June 30, 2006, the Department of Child Services reported today.
Rates of physical and sexual child abuse have fallen over the past decade due to better prevention, education and treatment. But experts say while they expect abuse rates to continue to drop, the complex causes are hard to eradicate.