National Epidemic" of Nearly 2,500 Deaths Each Year Covered Significantly Less at National Level Than Other Issues Involving Far Fewer Deaths; Above-Average Child Maltreatment Death Rates in FL, NE, NM, TN, OK, TX, AR, MO, LA, OH, GA and CO Highlighted. WASHINGTON, Dec. 14, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Every death is tragic, but why does the national media in the U.S. ignore the nearly 2,500 deaths each year that result from child abuse and neglect? Why do other issues involving far fewer deaths - such as the H1N1 virus, food-borne illnesses, Toyota accelerator malfunctions and coal mining - get far more attention from major news media outlets?
DAYTON -- In an effort to get ahead of the 2012-'13 state budget, a group of evangelical ministers are calling on state legislators to avoid cutting a program that provides nurses for home visits to young, expectant mothers. The ministers said at a Tuesday news conference that research shows the Nurse-Family Partnership has cut child abuse and neglect, made mothers less dependent on welfare, gotten fathers more involved in their families and saved the taxpayers money.
NEW YORK, Nov. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Hedge Funds Care, a global charity dedicated to preventing and treating child abuse, commends the Senate HELP Committee's planned hearing on December 13 that will "examine how well our nation is protecting children from child abuse and neglect. Hedge Funds Care is committed to educating and assisting the Senate HELP Committee about the existing issues that surround the reporting and prevention of child abuse. Currently, there is a wide discrepancy in protocol for reporting child abuse, for holding perpetrators accountable and for seeing that victims and their families get treatment.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Announced today, the National Coalition to End Child Abuse Deaths is fully endorsing the release of the Second Edition of the We Can Do Better: Child Abuse and Neglect Deaths in America report, produced by the Every Child Matters Education Fund (www.endchildabusedeaths.org). The Coalition is comprised of five national organizations - the Every Child Matters Education Fund, the National Center for Child Death Review, National Children's Alliance, the National District Attorneys Association, and the National Association of Social Workers. The new We Can Do Better report looks at child abuse and neglect deaths in the United States from 2001 through 2008. It estimates that over 12,000 children died from abuse or neglect during the eight-year p...
It costs at least $94 billion every year to ease the physical and emotional damage inflicted by rampant child abuse in the U.S., according to a new study presented Jan. 25 to New Mexico officials in Santa Fe. As a nation, we're paying $258 million every day to deal with the problems caused by child abuse and neglect," said study author Suzette Fromm Reed. "That amounts to about $1,462 per year for every family in the U.S. We're all paying for it, and that makes it everybody's business, whether you have children or not.
HARRISBURG, Pa., April 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Child abuse and neglect cost Pennsylvania $3.55 billion annually -- $2.11 billion a year in direct costs and $1.44 billion a year in indirect costs -- according to the Pennsylvania Family Support Alliance (PFSA). The costs that matter most, of course, are the physical and emotional harm that befall the victims of abuse and neglect, and the scars they carry with them afterward, often for life," PFSA Executive Director Angela Liddle said.
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