Cost of Child Abuse and Neglect Rival Other Major Public Health Problems

CDC - Economic Cost - Child Maltreatment - Violence Prevention - Injury:

Child maltreatment is a serious and prevalent public health problem in the United States. In fiscal year 2008, U.S. state and local child protective services (CPS) received more than 3 million reports of children being abused or neglected—or about 6 complaints per minute, every day. An estimated 772,000 children were classified by CPS authorities as being maltreated and 1,740 children aged 0 to 17 died from abuse and neglect in 2008.