Family

Discuss the view that children always suffer when both parents work. (Nov 1988)

Taken from: http://www.pcao.org/whatis/stats.cfm

National
-Since 1990, more than 10,000 American children have died at the hands of their parents or caretakers. Four children die every day in this country from child abuse and neglect.
-In 2000, over 3 million children were reported as abused or neglected in the United States.
Eighty percent of violent juvenile and adult prisoners were raised in violent homes.
-The United States annually spends an estimated $258 million on foster care, incarceration and other societal costs because of the abuse and neglect of children. This amounts to $1,460 per family, per year. Despite these high costs, the federal government invested only $10 in prevention research for every case reported.
-Survivors of abuse are six times more likely to become abusive parents.
-One in four girls and one in six boys will be sexually abused before the age 18.
-Abused children are 25 times more likely to repeat a grade.
-Seventy-five percent of high school dropouts have a history of abuse in their families.
-Forty-five percent of abused children become adult alcoholics.

Ohio

-Ohio’s rate of child abuse and neglect ranked ninth in the nation at 17.4 victims per 1,000 children above the national average of 12.3.
-In 2002, there were more than 100,000 reported cases of child abuse and neglect in Ohio and 50,140 of these children were determined to be victims of abuse and neglect (as reported by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services). the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services).
-Over a four-year period, Ohio has seen the number of children abused and neglected double from 24,998 in 1998 to the most recent 50,140 in 2002.
-Based on best available research, as many as 2,006 of the 50,140 Ohio victims of abuse and neglect will grow up to become violent criminals who would never have become so if not for the maltreatment they endured as children.
-Children’s Hospital, of Columbus, Ohio, experienced 137 inpatient admissions associated with Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) from 1998-2003.
-SBS is one of the most violent forms of child abuse and accounts for the majority of severe head injuries in children under one year of age (i.e., is the most common cause of mortality and long-term disability in infants and young children due to physical abuse).