15 facts of Child Abuse

FACTS

1. The Department of Children and Families (DCF) defines child abuse as,"any act or series of acts of commission or omission by a parent or other caregiver that results in harm, potential for harm, or threat of harm to a child."
2. There are four types of child abuse: Neglect, Physical Abuse, Emotional/Psychological Abuse, and Sexual Abuse.
3. Child Neglect is when the adult in charge of the child does not provide the necessary materials needed to live. These could be hygiene, medical uses, education, and food. 
4. Physical Abuse is when the adult in charge harms the child physically. That can involve punching, slapping, burning, whipping and many other horrible actions.
5. Psychological/Emotional Abuse is the hardest to define. It is when the abuser hurts the child emotionally. It can involve name calling, excessive critisism, torture or killing of a pet, destruction of personal belongings and many others.
6. Sexual Abuse is when the adult abuses the child for sexual purposes. A list made by wikipedia shows the ways sexual abuse can be used: asking or pressuring a child to engage in sexual activities (regardless of the outcome), indecent exposure of the genitals to a child, displaying pornography to a child, actual sexual contact against a child, physical contact with the child's genitals, viewing of the child's genitalia without physical contact, or using a child to produce child pornography.
7. The most frequent abuser is someone who knows the child but is not part of the family. This may be a babysitter, a neighbor, a friend of family. etc. 60% of all abusers fit in this category.
8. 30% of the times, it is a member of the family who abuses the child. 
9. 10% of the times, the abuser is a complete stranger. 
10. Women are the abusers in 14% of the boys cases and only 6% in girl cases. Men are responsible for the majority of abuses, whether in boys or girls. 
11. Today, 5+ kids die each day due to child neglect.
12. A report of child abuse is made every 10 seconds.
13. abused children are 25% more likely to experience teen pregnancy.
14. Children with alcoholic or drug-addicted parents are 3 times more likely to be abused and 4 times more likely to be neglected than children with sane parents. 
15. Incidence of Reported Cases of Child Abuse: Neglect 54%, Physical abuse 25%, Sexual Abuse 11%, Emotional Abuse 3% and others 7%.

SOURCES

1. Child Abuse by Wikipedia
2. US Department of Veteran Affairs
   
3. Childhelp Organization
4. Childwelfare Factsheet
5. Primary Prevention of Child Abuse