A new report from the Children’s Bureau says “an estimated 906,000 children were victims of child abuse or neglect in 2003”.

I don’t have numbers to back it up but my gut feeling is that this estimate is very low. The report is about the consequences of abuse and neglect and not about the reasons for its occurrence. It would be interesting to know how many of these children’s parents are involved in bad marriages.

Below you can read a summary of the report or go to the Child Welfare Information Gateway to read the complete report.