child maltreatment declines 12% 2006-2007

["Finkelhor, David" <David.Finkelhor@xxxxxxx>]

The Administration of Children Youth and Families released 2007 child maltreatment numbers on April 1, but it did not make the news in any of the places that I track, despite the fact that it shows a one year drop of 12% for all forms of maltreatment, which is the largest single year decline that has even occurred.

 

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/news/press/2009/child_maltreatment_report_07.html

 

Here’s the release with links to the report.

 

David

 

David Finkelhor
Crimes against Children Research Center
Family Research Laboratory
Department of Sociology, University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824
Tel 603 862-2761* Fax 603 862-1122
email: david.finkelhor@xxxxxxx

http://www.unh.edu/ccrc/
http://www.unh.edu/frl/

 

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"Sexual abuse is down 5% and physical abuse down 3% in the most recent NCANDS data."

 See update on new 2006 child maltreatment trends:

   http://www.unh.edu/ccrc/