Authors Note

Neglect is by far the most common form of child abuse. Of kids who have a parent who uses drugs, one in 13 is physically abused regularly.About 10% of babies are born to drug-using mothers.Of all prison inmates, 84% were abused as children.In 2005, 12.1 of every 1,000 American children, almost 900,000 in all, suffered abuse by adults, with parents of victims accounting for almost 80% of abusers.Of kids who have a parent who uses drugs, one in 13 is physically abused regularly.For every incident of child abuse or neglect that gets reported, it’s estimated that two others go unreported.Every day, about four children die in the U.S. because of abuse or neglect, most of them babies or toddlers.