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Article: Child Abuse Quilts: Revealing and Healing the Pain of Child Abuse.
- Article from:
- Pediatric Nursing
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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According to the recent government report, Child Maltreatment 1997: Reports From the States to the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System, almost 3 million reports of child abuse and neglect were filed in the United States in 1997. The number of substantiated or indicated maltreatment cases decreased from more than 1 million child victims in 1996 to about 984,000 in 1997. More than half of the reports involved neglect, about one-fourth involved physical abuse, and 12% included sexual abuse, and an estimated 1,197 fatalities resulted from child maltreatment in 1997. In response to the issue of child maltreatment, the Child Abuse Quilts Project was conceived. At least ...