Many children are molested and never tell anyone through their childhood. The estimates in the different child abuses vary greatly. Many people think in the range from 2-3 million a year in the United States. Other people think more. Some think there are more.
Sources think that there are thousands of cases that go unreported each year.
In sexual abuse, estimates say that one in every five girls are molested and that one in every eleven boys fall victim to sexual abuse. In physical abuse it appears that children are exposed to the female in the household there for making it more likely that children are to be abused. This doesn't mean that women are more abuse of then males. Before recently, the majority of the public believed that only alcoholics, and drug abusers physically abused their children. It doesn't matter what kind of person it is, they can abuse.