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Child Abuse Also Affects You

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, and child abuse also affects you.

In 2006 it was reported that more than 1,500 children die every day as a result of child abuse and neglect. Child Protective Services confirmed that 905,000 children were victims of maltreatment in that same year. Studies after studies show evidence that there also are approximately 9 million children who are victims of maltreatment, luckily they are alive. Of that group, many will suffer for the rest of their lives because of their experience as victims of child abuse.

Not everyone who is abused will become an abuser, but abused children are more likely to continue and reinforce the vicious circle of abuse they’ve learned.

Here are a few facts to know on child abuse and how it victimizes everyone:

Every ten seconds, a report of child abuse is filed
Almost five children die every day as a result of child abuse. More than three out of four are under the age of four.
Children who have been sexually abused are 3.8 times more likely to develop drug addictions
Child abuse occurs at every socioeconomic level, across ethnic and cultural lines, within all religions, and at all levels of education.
Two-thirds of the people in treatment for drug abuse report being abused as children
Abused children are 25 percent more likely to experience teen pregnancy
Abused teens are three times less likely to practice safe sex, putting them at greater risk for STDs
Children who have been sexually abused are 2.5 times more likely to abuse alcohol
Men who were physically or sexually abused as boys or who witnessed their mothers being abused are more likely to contribute to teen pregnancies
14 percent of all men in U.S. prisons were abused as children
36 percent of all women in prison were abused as children
Children who experience child abuse are neglect are 59 percent more likely to be arrested as a juvenile, 28 percent more likely to be arrested as an adult, and 30 percent more likely to commit violent crime
It is estimated that between 60–85 percent of child fatalities due to maltreatment are not recorded as such on death certificates
90 percent of child sexual abuse victims know the perpetrator in some way; 68 percent are abused by family members.
31 percent of women in prison in the United States were abused as children.
Over 60 percent of people in drug rehabilitation centers report being abused or neglected as a child.
Over 30 percent of abused and neglected children become abusers themselves. Abuse is a vicious circle
One-fourth of females in state prisons were physically abused before the age of eighteen, and 26 percent were sexually abused before the age of eighteen
The prevalence of child abuse of women is higher in correctional populations than the general public, as indicated in the BJS study that found about 17 percent or less of females in the general population have been abused as children compared to about 26 percent or less of female prison inmates.