Filed under: MYTH BUSTERS- Sexual Abuse
Myth- Of all sexual abuse cases, the majority discloses their abuse to someone they trust.
FACT- Estimates suggest that only 3% of all cases of child sexual abuse and only 12% of rapes involving children are ever reported to police due to the severity of the rape, the number of rapes, and the younger the age of the child, and a family relationship with the perpetrator.
-Written by Nashilla Alibhai
Filed under: MYTH BUSTERS- Sexual Abuse
Myth- With time, child victims of sexual abuse get over the past.
Fact- Along with other emotional issues, child sexual abuse has been shown to result in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in as many as 36% of adult survivors and 66% when the abuse included penetration.
-Written by Nashilla Alibhai
Filed under: MYTH BUSTERS- Child Abuse
MYTH-Victims of child abuse develop only emotional problems and not medical.
FACT- When a child has been a victim of multiple incidents of different types of child abuse, he/she is 4-12 times at risk for developing adult health and disease outcomes such as, heart disease, cancer, chronic lung disease.
Filed under: MYTH BUSTERS- Sexual Abuse
MYTH- More boys than girls are likely to tell someone about the sexual abuse.
FACT- Boys seem to have a particularly difficult time dealing with sexual abuse and are even less likely to report it than girls due to him blaming himself, the severity of the abuse, the belief that no one would believe him or labeled homosexual.
- Written by Nashilla Alibhai
Filed under: Child Abuse is a Public Health Crisis
Foster care is costly socially as well as fiscally. Children in foster care often have behavioral and emotional troubles that lead to expensive social problems such as dropping out of school, teen pregnancy, homelessness, unemployment, criminal activity, incarceration, and welfare dependency.
-Written by Nashilla Alibhai
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: 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
