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- More than twelve out of every 1,000 children are abused
and neglected each year in the United States. (Child
Maltreatment 2005)
- The rate of infant homicide has reached a 30-year high
and is now the leading cause of injury deaths of infants in the United
States. (Paul
A. Logli, President of the National District Attorney's Association,
2006)
- Research indicates that children three years old and
younger are the most frequent victims of child abuse and neglect fatalities.
(Child
Welfare Information Gateway)
- Murders of children five years old and younger are most
often committed by family members through beatings or suffocation. (Homicides
of Children and Youth, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention,
October 2001)
- A child in Arizona is abused or neglected every hour.
(Children's Defense Fund)
- Fifty Arizona children died of maltreatment in 2005.
Forty such deaths were documented in 2004. (Arizona
Child Fatality Review Team Report, November 2006)
- In 2004, the use of drugs or alcohol contributed to
10 percent (N=102) of all child deaths in Arizona; 21 involved use of
methamphetamines. (ibid.)
- Violence is one of the leading causes of mortality and
morbidity for Arizona's children. Seventy children in Arizona died in
2000 due to some type of violence-more than from heart disease, asthma,
diabetes, blood and metabolic diseases, and cancer combined. (The Honorable
Janet Napolitano, then Attorney General of the State of Arizona, Arizona
College of Public Health News, Spring 2001)
- Child neglect is the most prevalent form of child maltreatment
in the United States. (American
Humane)
- Of the 16,612 reports of alleged maltreatment received October 1, 2006-March 31, 2007, 59% alleged neglect, 34% physical abuse, 6% sexual abuse, and 1% emotional abuse. (Semi-annual
Report; Arizona Department of Economic Security; Division of Children,
Youth and Families)
- From October 1, 2006-March 31, 2007, there were 3,683 children removed from the home due to allegations of maltreatment.
(ibid.)
- On March 31, 2007, there were 9,773 children in out-of-home care in Arizona. (ibid.)
- Using 2004 and 2005 data, Arizona ranks 36 out of the
50 states in overall child well-being.
(2007
Kids Count Data Book, The Annie E. Casey Foundation)
- Maltreated children are at higher risk of arrest, at
a younger age, with more significant and repeated criminal involvement.
They can be expected to commit nearly twice as many crimes as children
raised in a healthier environment. (An
Update on the "Cycle of Violence", U.S. Department of Justice, February
2001)
- Children with disabilities are, on average, more than
three times more likely to be maltreated than other children. (Congressional
Testimony by the American Association of University Affiliated Programs,
August 2001)
- In addition to disabilities being a contributing factor
to maltreatment, maltreatment causes disabilities in thousands of children
each year. (ibid)
- The total annual cost of child abuse and neglect in
the United States is over $94 billion. (Prevent
Child Abuse America; Suzette Fromm 2001)
- “Providing services that engage, involve, strengthen, and support
families is the most effective approach to ensuring children's safety,
permanency, and well-being”. (National
Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information)
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