Child Abuse: Sexual, Physical, and Neglect

I recently read an article in the Post Chronicle written by Alan Burkhart with a title of "Modern Day barbarism: Protecting Our children", July 8, 2007. In his article he pointed out several types of abuse and the abusers of children, I am expounding upon what he wrote because the article fell far short of the seriousness of child abuse. Child abuse is happening around the world, but I will only focus on those abuses which occur here within the United States of America.

I will start with some facts from the Child Welfare Information Gateway from which all data and statistics in this article have been gathered, a repository of sorts of the prevalence of child abuse in the United States. The Child Welfare Information Gateway breaks abuse by type, namely: Sexual abuse, physical abuse, and neglect, and is categorized as maltreatment of children, a seemingly benign word that does not give one the feel or sense of great importance. Children suffer mental and emotional abuse as well but these abuses are integral to the three abuse types just mentioned, so let's focus on sexual, physical, and neglect. The scope of data that I will present is limited from one to several years in duration of studies that compiled the data we will be witnessing here. Let's get started.

Sexual abuse of children