{"id":25,"date":"2010-02-03T13:13:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T13:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/inspirationreport\/2010\/02\/study-says-child-abuse-is-way-down.html"},"modified":"2010-02-03T13:13:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T13:13:33","slug":"study-says-child-abuse-is-way-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2010\/02\/study-says-child-abuse-is-way-down.html","title":{"rendered":"Study Says Child Abuse is Way Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is difficult to consider anything related to child abuse as &#8220;good news&#8221; but the recent report stating that it is down by 26 percent is the best news we have had on that front for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Jeanne Sager of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.babble.com\/strollerderby\/2010\/02\/03\/they-say-child-abuse-is-way-down\/\">StrollerDerby<\/a> reports&nbsp;on the&nbsp;recent study today:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Introduced in the fourth report of the National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect, the statistics provided to Congress by the Department of Health and Human Services show a twenty-six percent decrease in the number of kids who suffered physical, sexual or emotional abuse in 2005-06 compared to those who were traumatized in 1993.&#8221;<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sex abuse on kids alone dipped thirty-eight percent in that period, while physical abuse was down fifteen percent, emotional abuse down by twenty-seven percent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sadly,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.acf.hhs.gov\/programs\/opre\/abuse_neglect\/natl_incid\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><font color=\"#d54d41\">the study still showed<\/font><\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;nearly half a million American kids suffered abuse in the year studied. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.babble.com\/strollerderby\/2010\/02\/03\/they-say-child-abuse-is-way-down\/\">Read more on her blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.babble.com\/strollerderby\/2010\/02\/03\/they-say-child-abuse-is-way-down\/\"><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is difficult to consider anything related to child abuse as &#8220;good news&#8221; but the recent report stating that it is down by 26 percent is the best news we have had on that front for a while. 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