11 Facts About Child Abuse

In 2008, one out of every 601.4 children were victims of physical abuse, with parents of victims accounting for almost 80.1% of abusers.
2.34 children out of 100,000 die from injuries relating to their abuse, with 80.8% of deaths occurring in children under four years old.
For every incident of child abuse or neglect that gets reported, it’s estimated that two others go unreported.
Neglect is by far the most common form of child abuse, accounting for more than 78% of all cases.
Physical abuse accounts for 17.8% of documented child abuse cases each year.
A fourth of all girls and a sixth of boys are sexually abused by an adult before the age of 17.
8 out of 10 sexual abusers are someone in the family or someone the child knows.
Every month, at least 100 babies are born to drug-using mothers.
Of kids who have a parent who uses drugs, one in 13 is physically abused regularly.
Abused children are more likely to abuse alcohol and become addicted to drugs, and one third will later abuse their own children.
Of all prison inmates, 84% were abused as children.