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Fact: Physical abuse is just one Researchers found over 91,000 cases
type of child abuse. For example, of neglect in one year (from October
neglect, sexual abuse and other 2005 to 30 September 2006) using
forms of emotional abuse can be information from a database of cases
just as damaging or more so. Since verified by protective services
they are more subtle and have less agencies commissioned by the
National Center on Child Abuse and
physical characteristics, intervention
Neglect, 64 percent of the projected
Child Neglect may be less likely.
number of actual cases of child
maltreatment in the United States
Myth: "Child abuse doesn't were cases of child neglect.
happen in “good” families. Specifically, the study estimated
917,200 cases of child neglect or an
Child Neglect: "An act of omission
Fact: Child abuse can happen in estimated incidence rate of 14.6 per
by a parent or care-giver that 1,000 children (Wikipedia, The Free
any social economic situation so
involves refusal or delay in whether the family is rich families,
Encyclopedia)."
providing health care, education, poor or middle class, there can be
or basic needs such as food, clothes, abuse. It can occur in any culture or
shelter, affection, and attention. country.
Neglect also includes inadequate
Myth: "Most child abusers are
supervision and abandonment"
strangers."
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