Child Abuse Prevention

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month.

In Tennessee:

• Tennessee Department of Children's Services responds to 37,000 reports of child abuse and neglect annually.
• Every day there are more than 100 reports of child abuse.
• Tennessee ranked 46th out of 50 states for overall well-being for children

Nationwide:

• 3,000,000,000 reports of possible abuse are reported each year (this equates to one report every 10 seconds).
• 3 million reports of child abuse involve over 5.5 million children in the U.S.
• 3 million reports per year but the actual incident is 3X greater
• 4 kids die everyday from abuse
• 1/3 of abused kids will abuse their own kids
• 80% of abuse is by a parent or caregiver