In Child Abuse and Neglect, the overview provides some facts about abuse that immediately caught my eye and made me think for a moment: "In the Commenwealth Fund Survey of the Health of Adolescent Girls (1997), one in five high school girls reported that she had been physically or sexually abused. The majority of the abuse occured at home (53 percent) and more than once (65 percent). Nearly a third had not told anyone about the abuse."
Of course I know that there are teenagers out there that have been or are being abused but reading actual percentages and statistics just makes it that much more real. This book was published in the late 90's so I can only imagine how much higher the numbers are now. The last sentence from that excerpt was disturbing and there are signs to look for in an adolescent to be able to pick up on someone who is being abused or has been abused, which are coming up within the next few chapters. Being the compassionate person that I am, I would want to be an outlet for these children or someone they would feel comfortable opening up to.
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