Governor Tom Corbett today credited greater public education about the causes of child abuse as a primary reason the number of abuse cases has declined in Pennsylvania for the second straight year.
Note: Although any noticeable drop in child abuse is a good thing, something about this article concerns me. Pennsylvania apparently suffers from a severe infestation of false accusing rats.
The 2010 Annual Child Abuse Report, released in recognition of April as Child Abuse Prevention Month, shows there were 24,615 reports of suspected child abuse in the state last year, down from 25,342 reports in 2009 and 25,655 in 2008.See what this tells you is that only aprox. 15% of reports of child abuse or neglect were substantiated leaving about 85% of reports determined to be false.
The number of substantiated reports of child abuse declined to 3,656 in 2010, down from 3,943 in 2009 and 4,201 in 2008.
What's really interesting though is that public education campaigns in Pennsylvania lowers the number of reports, yet in Nebraska...
Nebraskans utilize child abuse hotline to make reports
They're having record highs, and Traci Vauble, the executive director at the Central Nebraska Child Advocacy Center thinks the calls have increased because people are getting more educated.
So I don't know. Too bad we couldn't compare the two styles.
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