Recent studies find that anxiety has increased so much that typical school children during the 1980's reported more anxiety than child psychiatric patients did during the 1950's. No one cause for the increase can be proven, but it is likely that one of the reasons is the downward spiral of child abuse. The situation is a bad, but there is hope. Not so long ago children were considered property. Abuse may be on the rise, but awareness is increasing.
People can recover from childhood abuse, and many people are working to prevent abuse.
Donate your time or money to an organization working in your community. This was a significant decrease from the 44 percent investigated in 1986. Although the percentage of children whose abuse or neglect was investigated declined, the actual number of children investigated remained constant. CPS investigated only 26 percent of the seriously injured and 26 percent of the moderately injured children.