Abuse Increases In Summer
On May - 27 - 2012
Summer vacation may mean an increase in abuse as students spend more time at home. Child abuse instances increase for both The Bridge and CASA during the summer months, sometimes they nearly double. The Bridge Children’s Advocacy Center and CASA say there are many stresses adding to the increase in abuse. “Sometimes mom and dad are having to pay for food when normally they would have been getting lunches and breakfast at school. Kids may be at home by themselves now because parents still have to work, even when school is out and they may not have the funds to send them to camp or to school,” said Lara Escobar with CASA. READ MORE HERE
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By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
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