➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway
US: Child Maltreatment Statistics Show Slight Decline From Year to Year
Youth Today – September 29, 2017
Child welfare officials found evidence of “maltreatment” in more than 683,000 cases in fiscal 2015, data newly released by nonprofit research group Child Trends show. That’s a slight decline from the year before, when there were more than 702,000 such cases.
http://youthtoday.org/2017/09/u-s-child-maltreatment-statistics-show-slight-decline-from-year-to-year/