2. Child abuse comes in
many forms.
Physical
Emotional
Sexual
3. Physical abuse is any
abuse that a parent or
caregiver does by
hitting or physically
hurting a child.
4. Emotional abuse can
be in the form of
neglect, ignoring the
child’s needs and
hurtful words.
5. Sexual abuse is the
inappropriate
touching of a child
and or inappropriate
discussions about
sexual things.
6. Parental drug abuse
The parents were
abused when they
were children
Mental Illness
Lack of coping skills
Anger Issues
Financial issues
7. DCFS staff opened 4,504
cases of alleged
domestic violence–
related child abuse last
year. Of those, 2,582
were substantiated.
Substantiation of sexual
abuse, physical abuse,
and psychological abuse
allegations, were the
second most frequent
allegation type at 20%
9. Each year our country
fails to protect
thousands of children in
desperate
circumstances,
circumstances which
sadly end only with
their deaths.
● Of the 701,158 children
confirmed abused and
neglected in 2010:
• 78% did not receive proper
food, clothing, shelter,
hygiene, education, medical
care or protection.
• 18% were physically
abused.
• 9% were sexually abused.
• 8% suffered from
emotional abuse.
• 2% suffered from medical
neglect.
• 10% suffered from other
mistreatment such as
abandonment, threats, and
congenital drug addiction.
10. •Fear or unwillingness to get involved.
•Fear that a report will make matters worse.
•Reluctance to risk angering the family.
•Concern that making a report will negatively
impact an existing relationship with the child or
others.
•Belief that someone else will speak up and do
something (Americanhumane).
11. Family Support Center
www.familysupportcen
ter.org
Utah Domestic Violence
Council www.udvc.org
Utah Office of Domestic
and Sexual Violence
http://www.nomoresec
rets.gov
12. The more information put out in
the world, the more people are
made aware of child abuse. The
more clinics for counseling,
drug abuse, anger management,
the more we can help those in
need. More willingness of
people to report child abuse the
more the proper authorities can
step in and take care of the
situations and last but not least
the more we can form donations
and help to provide enough
resources for these
organizations to do their jobs
more efficiently.
