Research: Child Abuse, Racism, and Homicide

No child is a child safe from abuse. Especially young ones from the ages of 1-4. Every week, the Child Protection Services (also known as the CPS) get 50,000 cases of suspected child abuse. And that's only in the United States of America. Two thirds of these reports can be investigated, and hopefully willl prove sucessful, and a chlid will be saved. Because of these reports, about 896,000 children were rescued from brutal treatment. 60 percent of all child abuse victims experience neglect, which is simply not caring and/or providing for the child. 20 percent of these children are physically abused, and 10 percent are sexually abused. The smallest group, 7 percent, were found to have suffered emotional abuse, which is basically telling the chlid they are worthless and lowering their self esteem to dangerous levels. In the U.S., 57 percent of abused children are white (interestingly enough), 26 are african american, 11 percent are hispanic, less than 2 percent are native alaskan, and lastly 1 percent of child abuse victims are asian american.
The reports made that spare these children's lives mostly came from professionals like doctors, nurses, teachers, legal law enforcment, criminal justice employees and social service workers. (57 percent). Now, almost half (44 percent) of these reports were made by others, like parents, neighbors, friends and relatives. 10 percent of these reports were from anonymous sources. But the important thing is that these statistics show that everybody, whether it's their job or not, reconizes and does all they can to help an abused child in need. On average, four children die every day due to child abuse. 80 percent of these kids are under the age of eight.
Racism. Racism is not just whites against the world. I am only going to talk about whites because I couldn't find any other good information on other ethnic groups, and they are not usually thought of as the victims of racial crimes. A study in 2002 revealed that whites are the second most targeted racial group in America. The information collected by the FBI showed 3763 cases of racial assult on whites, and 17 people were killed just because they were white.