Physical abuse: Includes beating, burning or punching a child.
Emotional abuse: May involve criticizing, insulting, rejecting or withholding love from a child.
Sexual abuse: Includes rape, touching/fondling or involving a child in pornography.
Neglect: Includes failure to provide for a child’s basic physical, emotional or educational needs. (Leaving a young child home alone or failing to provide needed medical care may be considered neglect.)
Facts About Child Abuse
More than two million children in the United States will be reported abused each year. Thousands will die as a result of the abuse.
As many as one in four girls and one in 10 boys are sexually abused by age 18. Girls are three times as likely as boys to experience childhood sexual assault.
Almost one-half of the women in the United States jails and prisons said they had been sexually abused before their imprisonment.
Nearly all juvenile sexual assault victims know their attacker; and about two-thirds of the abusers are family members.
