More and more children are being abused each day. Studies show that three point two million reports of child abuse were filed in 2007. Out of these reports one point seventy-nine million of them were investigated, and 794,000 were actually found to be cases of child abuse and neglect. There have also been statistics that show that forty-two percent of abused children were under the age of one, and seventy-five point seven percent were under the age of four (“Better Funding Of Child Protection Services Will Help Protect Children from Domestic Violence”). With better funding of child protective services more of these cases could be investigated, and thousands of children could be better protected from the harm of abusive or neglectful parents.
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Services that go into the home have been shown to have positive effects. These services help parents and the children as a whole work together to better understand one another. “Families that are given these protective services are much less likely to receive filed reports of abuse and neglect than those without them” (“Better Funding of Child Protective Services”). When you see that a child is being abused or neglected the first thing you should do is report it. Once the report has been made Child Protective Services (CPS) will step in to investigate and help the family. Even though you have made this report, it is good to stay in contact with the family because you are just as important to the family’s recovery as a whole as you are to the child alone. Listen and be supportive, try to understand what they’re going through and empathize with them. Be a positive role model to them and promote positive …show more content…
That just goes to show that we do need CPS to prevent these children that are only in danger of being harmed from actually being harmed. Parents who are subject to substance abuse are becoming more of a contributor to child abuse and neglect. From 1994-1996 the amount of reports have increased from seventy-six percent to eighty-one percent. Cases show that unemployment is becoming a contributor to child neglect also. These parents are becoming more stressed and are expressing their anger around their children. Parents that express their anger in this way more than likely are deficient in parenting skills, and were also likely to have been in abusive homes themselves. Statistics show that a numerous amount of US states only investigate the deaths of children who were previously or are still in contact with CPS. The effectiveness of CPS is highly reliant on what kind of funding they receive. Without proper funding CPS has to only focus on certain cases so that they can help, to their knowledge, the ones who are in need of their services the most. We are becoming more and more in need of these services as the amount of abused children steadily increase each year. Better funding will help CPS give assistance to a more wide range of people, and work towards decreasing the overall amount of abused children in the
Services that go into the home have been shown to have positive effects. These services help parents and the children as a whole work together to better understand one another. “Families that are given these protective services are much less likely to receive filed reports of abuse and neglect than those without them” (“Better Funding of Child Protective Services”). When you see that a child is being abused or neglected the first thing you should do is report it. Once the report has been made Child Protective Services (CPS) will step in to investigate and help the family. Even though you have made this report, it is good to stay in contact with the family because you are just as important to the family’s recovery as a whole as you are to the child alone. Listen and be supportive, try to understand what they’re going through and empathize with them. Be a positive role model to them and promote positive …show more content…
That just goes to show that we do need CPS to prevent these children that are only in danger of being harmed from actually being harmed. Parents who are subject to substance abuse are becoming more of a contributor to child abuse and neglect. From 1994-1996 the amount of reports have increased from seventy-six percent to eighty-one percent. Cases show that unemployment is becoming a contributor to child neglect also. These parents are becoming more stressed and are expressing their anger around their children. Parents that express their anger in this way more than likely are deficient in parenting skills, and were also likely to have been in abusive homes themselves. Statistics show that a numerous amount of US states only investigate the deaths of children who were previously or are still in contact with CPS. The effectiveness of CPS is highly reliant on what kind of funding they receive. Without proper funding CPS has to only focus on certain cases so that they can help, to their knowledge, the ones who are in need of their services the most. We are becoming more and more in need of these services as the amount of abused children steadily increase each year. Better funding will help CPS give assistance to a more wide range of people, and work towards decreasing the overall amount of abused children in the