Child Abuse has many definitions, but the definition that best defines it is found in the online legal dictionary. Child abuse is an offensive act that can end in the killing, severely physical or severely emotional harm of a child (Child Abuse). Child abuse can consist of a child being beaten by someone who they trusted to take care of them, someone who was close to them. How many times has CPS had to step in to remove a child and when they didn’t, was the child was severely hurt? This is due to the lack of support from social workers who don’t properly investigate, judges who don’t operate to the best of their ability and others involved not speaking up.
Sometimes, kids are abused at the hands of people they are familiar with but cannot tell anyone because they will not only get beating but, that means being yelled at because they told the “family” business. Most people live by the motto, that what happens in this house stays in this house. No one needs to know our “business”. Children that live in abusive environments don’t quite understand why they are being abused or even why they must watch their siblings being abused. They all suffer to the same extent because they can’t jump in and help without getting hurt themselves or being treated the same as the current victim. Growing up in an abusive environment as a child who has witnessed or experienced this form of trauma, can make it extremely hard for them to express themselves to someone who could possibly help remove them from the situation.
The statistics of child abuse cases vary for many reasons. If it is reported to the correct people or even reported at all. The US Administration of Children and Families collected data in 2015, that data gave an estimate 1670 children that were killed from being abused (US Administration of Children and Families). While the reports from The National Children’s Alliance, have shown that the Children’s Advocacy centers (CAC) provided advocacy and support to more than 311,000 child victims of abuse and family members (National Children’s Alliance). “Of these 311,000, 195,912 were female, 114,953 were males, and 823 were undisclosed” (National Children’s Alliance).
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Those are just the number for 2015, can you imagine what the numbers look like for the years prior to and after? They don’t expose these numbers to the public for anyone to be viewed or know about. These numbers increase every year, and these numbers don’t include the number of unreported victims. The National Children’s Alliance reported (National Children’s Alliance) that “78.1% of child abuse cases that were reported, the parent was the perpetrator that issued the abuse” (National Children’s Alliance). Adults that were abused as children will grow up with a higher chance of being an abuser.
