Child abuse is quickly emerging as a common epidemic around the world. Thousand of children are abused on a daily basis in the United States alone. When looking at this figure on an international basis, the number tops millions. It is your personal responsibility to know and understand what child abuse is, and the signs of child abuse. As a parent, a grandparent, an aunt, an uncle, a friend, relative, and coworker – it should be a priority to make certain that the children are receiving the love, care, and treatment that they deserve!

Child Abuse Defined

There are a number of definitions floating around regarding child abuse. This is a very broad term that can be defined in many different ways. However, the legislation of the United States government has defined child abuse as the act or the failure to perform an act with a child and/or children that ends up resulting in the physical harm to that child, death, sexual violation, emotional burden, and/or exploitation. If an adult places a child at risk for experiencing harm or any of the above situations, that is also considered child abuse. 

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by Alan Hammond

Child abuse is widespread; an epidemic. Although untold numbers of abused kids are losing their innocence and being forced leave their childhood well before their time, we forget that fact. Many of us don’t even realize it. The daily rigors of providing the necessities and a happy life for ourselves and families push painful thoughts of children of abuse to the far corners of our mind. What follows here are some hard to face facts. Many of which we never consider.

According to Childwelfare.gov, a service of the Children’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, each week child protective services agencies across the USA receive more than 50,000 reports of child neglect or abuse. In 2003, there were reports involving 5.5 million children. It is startling that 906,000, almost one-million children, were found to have been the victim of abuse or neglect. The most astonishing fact is that nearly 1,500 children, 44-percent being one-year-old or younger, died in 2003, the victims of abuse or neglect.

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