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Child Abuse - Survey & Comments

Beyond cases reported to authorities,mental health problems and delinquent
little knowledge exists on the types,behavior. For example:~ Negative
amount, and effects of childhoodoutcomes in victims of sexual assault
victimization. Through a national surveywere three to five times the rate
of adolescents, researchers examined theobserved in non victims.~ Girls who
prevalence of sexual assault, physicalwitnessed violence were nearly twice as
assault, physically abusive punishment,likely as boys to experience post
and witnessing an act of violence andtraumatic stress disorder.This
subsequent effects on mental health,nationally representative sample does
substance use, and delinquent behaviornot include adolescents from homes
problems. Gender and racial/ethnicwithout telephones and certain high-risk
specific findings are translated intoadolescents (i.e., those who were
national estimates.Research findingshomeless or housed in jails, juvenile
include (from the U.S. Department ofcorrectional facilities, or inpatient
Justice):1. Rates of interpersonalmental health treatment
violence and victimization of 12 to 17facilities).These are disturbing
year-olds in the United States werestatistics and are supported by the well
extremely high, and witnessing violenceknown syndrome that rape cases go
is considerably more common.2. Black andlargely unreported. Many times, children
native American adolescents wereare embarrassed to report abuse,
victimized more than whites, Hispanics,especially sexual abuse, which allows
and Asians in each type ofthe perpetrator more time to continue
victimization. Much of the violencewith the child (and others). The
experienced by youths is perpetrated byNational Center for Child Abuse and
peers or someone the victim knows well.Neglect estimates that there are almost
Most sexual assaults (86 percent) andone million children in the US that
physical assaults (65 percent) wentsuffer life threatening physical
unreported.3. A clear relationshipviolence each year.
exists between youth victimization and



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