Published in NH Bar News - 8/18/2021 Child abuse imposes untold suffering, both physical and emotional, on each child it impacts. According to the Center for Disease Control: "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 2008.1" That abuse also imposes an enormous financial cost on the public. According to a study written for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: "[the] estimated average lifetime cost per victim of nonfatal child maltreatment is $210,012 in 2010 dollars, including $32,648 in childhood health care costs; $10,530 in adult medical costs; $144,360 in productivity losses; $7,728 in child welfare costs; $6,747 in criminal justice costs; and $7,999 in special education costs. The estimated average lifetime cost per death is $1,272,800, including $14,100 in medical costs and $1,258,800 in productivity losses. The total lifetime economic burden resulting from new cases of fatal and nonfatal child maltreatment in the United States in 2008 is approximately $124 billion. In sensitivity analysis, the total burden is estimated to be as large as $585 billion." The economic burden of child maltreatment in the United States and implication for prevention, Fang eg al,...
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