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Child Abuse: A Generational Plague

Children are suffering from a hidden epidemic of abuse.

Child abuse occurs at every socioeconomic level, across ethnic and cultural lines, within all religions and at every level of education.

- 37 children DIE every day. A report of child abuse is made every 10 seconds.

- 50-60% of maltreatment fatalities are not recorded as such on the death cert. - 80% of children that die from abuse are under the age of 4. - 95% of juvenile sexual abuse victims, know their perpetrator..

The United States has the worst records in the industrialized nations –

The estimated annual cost of child abuse and neglect in the United States for 2008 is $124 billion dollars

Child sexual abuse has been recognized specifically as a type of child maltreatment in U.S. federal law since the initial Congressional hearings on child abuse in 1973. Child sexual abuse is illegal in every state, as well as under federal law. Among the states, the specifics of child sexual abuse laws vary, but certain features of these laws are common to all states.

There is No Excuse,                                                                         For Child Abuse!!! † ♥ † ♥ † ♥ † ♥ † ♥ † ♥† ♥ † ♥ † He who walks with integrity walks securely. But he who perverts his ways will become known! - Proverbs 10:9