"85% of all child abuse reports are unfounded"

"85% of all child abuse reports are unfounded"
20 HRS, 59 MINS AGO
March 24, 2010

For 10 years, I have been saying-
85% of all reports are unfounded- nothing happened.

Of the remaining 15%, at least half of those, nothing happened either.

The remaining 7 or 8 percent are likely "neglect" due to POVERTY. It is the SYSTEM that is out of control.
I have been challenged on my 85% figure, which admittedly I have been quoting since the year 2000, which was accurate at that time.

Therefore, I am making this update, based on the most recent report from the government agency "childwelfare.gov"--
Child Maltreatment 2007: Summary of Key Findings
Numbers and Trends
Author(s): Child Welfare Information Gateway
Year Published:2009
This factsheet presents excerpts from Child Maltreatment 2007, a report based on data submissions by State child protective services (CPS) agencies for Federal fiscal year (FFY) 2007. The full Child Maltreatment 2007 report is available on the Children's Bureau website: www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/pubs/cm07/index.htm
How many children were reported and received an investigation or assessment for abuse and neglect?
During FFY 2007, an estimated 3.2 million referrals, involving the alleged maltreatment of approximately 5.8 million children, were made to CPS agencies. An estimated 3.5 million children received an investigation or assessment.
Approximately 62 percent (61.7 percent) of referrals were screened in for investigation or assessment by CPS agencies.
Approximately 25 percent (25.2 percent) of the investigations or assessments found at least one child to be a victim of abuse or neglect, with the following report dispositions: 24.1 percent substantiated, 0.6 percent indicated, and 0.5 percent alternative response victim.
Almost 75 percent of the investigations or assessments determined that the child was not a victim of maltreatment, with the following dispositions: 61.3 percent unsubstantiated, 6.1 percent alternative response nonvictim, 5.7 percent "other," 1.6 percent closed with no finding, and 0.0 percent intentionally false.
Please note that you have to do some math to come up with the figures we are looking for.

The latest stats now show only 38% screened OUT to begin with.

Of the 62% screened IN, 75% of those were determined NO ABUSE.

[The math= 75% of 62%= 46.5%. So 38%+46.5%=84.5%]

Remember, these figure come from CPS reports to NCCAN (National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect), and I believe CPS like I believe in the tooth fairy. Oh yes, I am saying THEY LIE. This is required for Collecting the Federal Funding Streams.

They certainly can't tell the truth- that there really isn't nearly the problem the propaganda says there is.

Especially note the absurd 0% "Intentionally False" figure.

I am still willing to say that less than 5% of all reports are REAL abuse, by the definition that any sane person THINKS is abuse.
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