➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
US: How Much Does Child Abuse Cost? Study Says $400K Over a Lifetime
Chronicle of Social Change – January 13, 2017
According to researchers with the San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center in collaboration and the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, each incidence of child abuse costs the public $400,533 over the course of a victim’s lifetime.
https://chronicleofsocialchange.org/research-news/much-child-abuse-cost-study-says-400k-lifetime/23950