Filed under: Child Abuse is a Public Health Crisis
As many as two-thirds of all people in treatment for drug abuse report that they were physically, sexually, or emotionally abused during childhood, research shows. It seems that a lot of victims of child abuse turn to alcohol or drug abuse to numb the pain or to cope with their trauma. Some become more vulnerable to use and addiction because their abuser forces them to use it.
-Written by Nashilla Alibhai
Filed under: Child Abuse is a Public Health Crisis
Child abuse and neglect has been identified as a public health crisis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Abused children are at an increased risk of serious problems as adults. Stress, trauma and persistent fear at an early age can change the biology of the brain and cause children who do not get appropriate treatment to have lifelong mental, psychological and social problems including poor initiative in school, language and developmental delays, disproportionate amount of incompetence and failure, and inappropriate behavior in peer and adult relationships.
-Written by Nashilla Alibhai
Filed under: MYTH BUSTERS- Sexual Abuse
MYTH- A child sexual offender usually does it once to the victim.
FACT- Sexual abuse typically occurs within a long-term, on-going relationship between the offender and victim, escalates over time and lasts an average of four years.
-Written by Nashilla Alibhai
Filed under: Child Abuse is a Public Health Crisis
Child abuse and neglect has been identified as a public health crisis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Abused children are at an increased risk of serious problems as adults. Stress, trauma and persistent fear at an early age can change the biology of the brain and cause children who do not get appropriate treatment to have lifelong mental, psychological and social problems including poor initiative in school, language and developmental delays, disproportionate amount of incompetence and failure, and inappropriate behavior in peer and adult relationships.
-Written by Nashilla Alibhai
Filed under: Child Abuse is a Public Health Crisis
The cost for a year of public education in Texas is $7,246 per pupil. The cost of incarcerating a child in the Texas Youth Commission is $67,890 a year per child.
-Written by Nashilla Alibhai
Filed under: MYTH BUSTERS- Child Abuse
MYTH- In the state of Texas, every week 1 child dies of abuse or neglect.
FACT- In 2007, of the 71,344 children who were confirmed child abuse and neglect victims, 233 died from abuse and neglect. Every week 4 children died from child abuse or neglect.
-Written by Nashilla Alibhai
Filed under: MYTH BUSTERS- Child Abuse
MYTH- After Child Protection Agencies have intervened by using family preservation tools, the child is safe from further abuse and possible death.
FACT- Children whose families had received family preservations and CPS were aware of the abuse have within the first 5 years after returning accounted for 11.9% of child fatalities. Slightly more than 2% (2.6%) of the child fatalities had been in foster care and were reunited with their families.
-Written by Nashilla Alibhai
Filed under: MYTH BUSTERS- Child Abuse
MYTH- The perpetrator of child fatalities as a result of abuse is usually unknown to the child.
FACT- Nationally yearly 70% (69.9%) of child fatalities were caused by one or more parents in 2007. More than one-quarter (27.1%) of fatalities were perpetrated by the mother acting alone and child fatalities with unknown perpetrators accounted for 16.4%.
-Written by Nashilla Alibhai
Filed under: MYTH BUSTERS- Child Abuse
MYTH: Child abuse rarely results in death of the child and it more often happens to older children.
FACT- Sadly, violence and neglect against children kills more than 4 children every day in America. Most of the children who die are younger than six years of age. Of these fatalities, 79 percent were under the age of six; 44 percent of the children were under the age of one.
-Written by Nashilla Alibhai
Filed under: MYTH BUSTERS- Sexual Abuse
MYTH- Children tend to exaggerate the truth and are prone to make false accusations of sexual abuse.
FACT- Studies have found that children often minimize and deny, rather than embellish what has happened to them even though there is medical evidence of sexual abuse.
-Written by Nashilla Alibhai
