Perry Repeatedly Cut Child Abuse Prevention Funding As Texas Battled Rising Levels Of Abuse | ThinkProgress:
Perry Repeatedly Cut Child Abuse Prevention Funding As Texas Battled Rising Levels Of Abuse
By Marie Diamond on Oct 19, 2011 at 10:45 am
A disturbing new report reveals that child abuse in the United States has reached “epidemic” levels, with one child dying every five hours from abuse or neglect. A recent congressional report estimates that some 2,500 children were killed as a result of maltreatment in 2009, and America has the worst child abuse record in the industrialized world.
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