Child Sex Abuse Reports Spike As Country Shelters in Place,
COVID-19 has been, and continues to be, especially devastating for children who are victims of abuse. Scott Berkawitz, the president of...
NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILD ABUSE STATISTICS AND POLICY
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Child Sex Abuse Reports Increase due to COVID-19
Summarized from, "Child Sex Abuse Reports Spike As Country Shelters in Place, Advocates Say" By Alanna Vagianos COVID-19 has been, and...
The New Yorker: Why Doesn’t the U.S. Have an Accurate Count of Child-Abuse Deaths?
By Dan Hurley Tanner Bivins was declared dead on January 5, 2018, at a hospital in Paducah, Kentucky, the week before his sixth birthday....
Boston Globe: How many children die from abuse? The Globe and ProPublica wanted to find out
Experts have long suspected that the United States badly undercounts the number of children who die from abuse and neglect. The voluntary...
AFCARS 2018 Report of Children in the U.S. Child Welfare System Released
Adoption and Foster Care Analysis &Reporting System
Study: Child Neglect Lower in Medicaid Expansion States
Eric Tegethoff, Public News Service - ID A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that rates of child neglect...
Big Data, Little Kids How Child Welfare Can Be Improved With Technology
Incredibly insightful panel brought together by AEI to discuss how child abuse victims can be helped by bringing technology used in the...
Connecting the Dots
Child Protective Service ("CPS") records are contained within state lines. In the mobile and transient world, the lack of data sharing...
Legislation Aimed at Training Doctors to Better Identify Child Abuse Introduced in House and Senate
Early Detection to Stop Infant Abuse and Prevent Fatalities Act (S.1009/H.R. 2076) Nearly 1 in 3 abused children has been seen previously...
Child Maltreatment 2017 Released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (in Feb 2019)
Child Maltreatment 2017 is the 28th edition of the annual Child Maltreatment report series. States provide the data for this report...