What percent of children in the us are abused(sexaul, violence or verbal) in the us?

Question

doing paper for soci. on child abuse,i cant find any sites with good statistics, know any?

thanks

Answer 1

The statistics on that one vary WIDELY.  The reason? It isn't publicly disclosed, it's secret and most of it goes unreported. So a lot of it is speculative on the part of researchers, some statistics varying from as much as 30-70% for some sexual abuse of girls.

Also, your definitions of abuse cover a variety of psychological topics.

Sexual abuse is its own category.  So is physical abuse.  Emotional/verbal abuse as well.  

I don't think you'll find a statistic on "abuse in general" as you've described it.

Try narrowing your search for each type and then searching again.