Costs
Risk Factors
The average lifetime cost per victim is $210,012
- The family of the child can become poor, have bad relationships, and/or become anti-social
- $32,648 in childhood health care
- $10,530 in adult medical costs
- $144,360 in productivity losses
- $6,747 in criminal justice
- $7,999 in special education
- The abuser can have stress, lack of understanding, and/or mental issues.
The Abuser
Prevention
- The child can suffer severe injuries or death, mental disabilities, learning disabilities, and/or abuse drugs.
Abusers and non-abusers often have similar traits so it can be hard to tell them apart.
"The cost to our country as a whole is approximately $124 billion annually," (Information About Child Abuse and Prevention)
Preventing child maltreatment requires a public education about child abuse and neglect.
The abuser is usually known by the child.
Parents, relatives, babysitters, and family friends have all been known abusers.
Prevention also needs community commitment.
Parents who abuse often deny it.
Preventing child abuse and neglect is a key factor in preventing youth violence as well.
Abusive parents protest that they have a right to punish their children as they please.
Child abuse and neglect has been around a long time and is still a big problem. Child maltreatment comes in many forms, including physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, physical neglect, and emotional neglect. Child neglect is mainly a parent failing to care for the child properly (Polonko 260-261).
Child Maltreatment
It Shouldn't Hurt To Be A Child
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Conclusion
Mackenzie King
April 30, 2013
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The Main Forms of Maltreatment Are:
Child maltreatment is a continuing problem in the world and happens more often than most people think.
Child maltreatment is a continuing problem. It is anything that can harm a child in any way. It comes with physical, mental, and financial risks for everyone involved.
"Child abuse is the use of physical, emotional, or verbal violence to control the behavior of the child," (Haley 54).
"Most generally, child neglect can be defined as a caretaker failing to meet the needs of a child that are deemed essential for physical, intellectual, and emotional development," (Polonko 261).
Physical Abuse
Emotional/Verbal Abuse
Child abuse and neglect are growing problems around the world and are more common than most people think.
Sexual Abuse
Drawing attention to child maltreatment can save lives today and in the future.
Neglect
Every child is innocent. Save them from fear.