Data Points: Child Abuse
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Hey, friends. The broken cycle media team and I are excited to offer a new series of educational episodes, which we're calling data points. These special ad three episodes will include educational information, statistics and support on different topics that are important to our community.

Thank you so much for listening. Child abuse is defined as the harm, this treatment, neglect or coercive manipulation of a person under the age of eighteen. Both adults and children can be perpetrators of child abuse, and the majority of child abuse is perpetuated by someone the child knows and trust like a parent or relative abuse can be physical, mental, emotional, sexual and or medical in nature.

This also includes neglect. Children who are victims of abuse are often afraid to report or disclosed, especially if their abuse er is a close relative related dly. Several studies done around the world have found various disclosure rates, which is the rate at which events of abuse are reported compared to how many events of abuse actually occur.

In one study is suggested that one third of children who are victimized reported immediately. One third wait up to five years to report IT, and the final one third either wait longer than five years or never reports at all. The world health organization reports that three out of ford children between the ages of two and four regularly suffer physical punishment and or psychological violence at the hands of their caregivers.

Another study proposes that seventy nine percent of abuse inflicted by a female abuse will remain unreported indefinitely. IT has also been found that the average age of victim reports childhood sexual abuse is fifty two years old. There are many factors that can affect the results of these studies beyond non reporting, some studies are self restricting because they only discuss adult to child abuse rather than including peer inflicted abuse as well.

All of the studies that will be mentioned in these episodes will be linked in the episode nodes. Another factor is whether victims of abuse are being interviewed as children or retrospectively as adults. Other studies only includes statistics about the incidents of contact abuse, omitting non physical contact abuse altogether.

All of these and many more remain to be factors that affect the proposed incident of abuse. Considering only the cases that are reported. The cdc states that one billion children ages two to seventeen experience violence each year.

In the same study, IT was found that sixty four percent of children in asia, fifty six percent of children in north america, fifty percent of children in africa, thirty four percent of children in ln america, and twelve percent of children in europe have faced severe physical violence or abuse in the last year as well, one in five women and one in thirteen men report having been sexually abused as a child. Despite IT being relatively impossible to calculate the real number of childhood abuse victims, there are signs and symptoms to be wary of. Children who are being subjected to consistent harm often withdraw the experience changes in their behavior or self confidence.

They often show signs of increased depression, anxiety, fears and more. If you suspect a child in your life is facing abuse, there are steps established to help. First, if you suspect someone is being abused and is in immediate danger, please call nine one one to report the abuse.

If you suspect a child in your life is being abused but is not an eminent serious danger, you can visit the list of child welfare offices by state in the episode notes to find out where and how to report the abuse or neglect directly. For more information about protocol from specific resources, please visit something was wrong dot com slash resources for a list of non profits that can offer guidance. The long term effects of childhood buse are undeniably profound.

As child welfare states, childhood maltreatment can be linked later in life to physical, psychological and behavioral consequences to individuals as well as society as a whole. The immediate impact of abuse varies from person to person, but can generally cause altered brain development, changes in physical growth or symptoms such as anxiety or pain other by products of childhood buse can be low self steam and high risk behaviors such as substance abuse. Childhood abuse is often found to be linked to long term problems in adult hood and a higher risk of a large array of physical elements such as malnutrition, heart attacks, migrants, digestive issues, cancer, chronic bronchitis and several other health conditions.

A study done by the cdc found that for each child who faces non fatal abuse in their youth, the lifetime cost of attending to the effects of that abuse is roughly eight hundred thirty one thousand dollars, including welfare, health care and costs within the U. S. Justice systems.

The united states alon Epace f our h undred t wenty e ight b illion d ollars a y ear t o h elp v ictims o f s ubstantiated c ases o f n on f atal a buse. The nature of abuse is cynically and incredibly covered, and there are many ways to combat and eradicate abuse. The pervasive nature of abuse requires extensive efforts across the world to truly try to eradicate ate childhood abuse.

The world health organization has created comprehensive, actionable steps to support parents and children in an effort to lessen the number of childhood abuse victims. These steps include teaching positive parenting skills that promote healthy psychological development in children, as well as more emotional and mental health support for parents. IT is suggested that more economic support for families could reduce the prevalence of childhood abuse as well.

Considering there is a direct scientific correlation between increased parental financial difficulties and an increased prevalence of abuse, another world health organization suggestion is changing societal norms to support parents more. They suggest providing quality childcare in education early in life to reduce future risks of abuse. There are many child abuse non profit organizations offering comprehensive resources, tools and education for both children and adults.

These organizations include the california partnership to end domestic violence childhood assessment center, which provides a ordinated approach to treating childhood abuse victims and their families. Domestic violence action center, futures without violence, the national center for youth law, and many, many more. For more information about the non profit organizations mentioned prior and the sources, please visit the episode notes for a comprehensive list of organizations that are working to help alleviate the effects of childhood buse and eliminate childhood abuse altogether, please visit something was wrong to com slash resources.

For more information about volunteer opportunities, please visit the resources page as well, and reach out directly to an organization to find out how you can get involved. Thank you so much for listening. If you like something was wrong, you can listen early and ad free right now by joining wondering plus in the wonderful APP or on apple podcast, prime members can listen, add free on amazon music before you go tell us about yourself by filling out a short survey at wonder dot com slash survey.

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