Friday, February 15, 2008

If I can stop the abuse or neglect of one child, in my life, then I have made a difference

"1,500 children die from abuse each year.There are 140,000 injuries to children from abuse each year. There are 1.7 million reports of child abuse each year."3"
..about 1 in 4 women in North America were molested in childhood."
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"More than 2 million cases of child abuse and neglect are reported each year in the United States. An estimated 150,000 to 200,000 new cases of sexual abuse occur each year."
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"There were an estimated 903,000 victims of maltreatment nationwide."
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"An estimated 1,100 children died of abuse and neglect, a rate of approximately 1.6 deaths per 100,000 children in the general populations."
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...approximately 1 in 7 males will have been sexually molested before the age of 18."
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It takes a moment...it takes a heartbeat - in the blink of an eye the very fiber of a child's soul can be changed forever. Stop their monsters...make a difference in a child's life. STOP child abuse.