Child Abuse
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Child abuse, whether psychological, physical, or sexual, is near epidemic proportions in U.S. society. In 2003, more than 218,820 reports of child abuse were registered with the National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse (Child, 1997). Women suffer from child abuse more than men, at least sexual abuse, with 29 percent of female rape victims under the age of eleven and 20 percent of all females a victim of child sexual abuse compared to 10 percent of males (Child, 1997). In all, the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) reports that for the year 2003, 903,000 children in the U.S. experienced child abuse and/or neglect (Fact, 2005). In increasing instances, family members, friends, teachers, coaches and even priests have been found guilty of child abuse in recent years. The child abuse scandal within the Catholic Church has become so bad that, at the Red Mass held in
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