"The State of the World's Children 2014 In Numbers: Every Child Counts" highlights the critical role data and monitoring play in realizing children's rights. Credible data, disseminated effectively and used correctly, make it possible to target interventions that help right the wrong of exclusion. Data do not, of themselves, change the…

Objectives: Few studies have addressed the long-term consequences of adverse childhood experiences among women in Oceania, in particular among indigenous women. This paper aims to report prevalences of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and to asses the negative sexual health consequences in adulthood by comparing indigenous Kanak to non-Kanak women in…

To mark the 25th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, this edition of "The State of the World's Children" calls for brave and fresh thinking to address age-old problems that still affect the world's most disadvantaged children. The report is inspired by the work of innovators around the world--who are pushing…

The authors explored the relationship among childhood sexual abuse (CSA), physical and mental health work barriers, and employment outcomes using a large panel study of current and former welfare recipients. Controlling for human capital and demographic characteristics, they found CSA was associated with significantly fewer months worked over the…

A total of 116 mothers of preschool children and 230 female college students responded to a 60-question survey designed to assess attitudes and opinions concerning physical child abuse in four categories: legal issues, treatment issues, behaviors constituting child abuse, and attitudes toward physical discipline. Students were significantly more…

Sexual assault victims (N=1059) under age 17 were evaluated. Among findings were that 89 percent were female; that average age was 8.3 years; that Black children were 1.58 times and Latin children 0.22 times as likely to be victims; and that 58.1 percent of the perpetrators were known to the child but were not family members. (Author/DB)

This study examined the naturalistic therapy experiences of 81 sexually abused girls, ages 6 to 16, and the relationship of these experiences to demographic factors. Results indicated strong effects for abuse experiences and child psychopathology on amount of therapy received. Ethnic or racial minority status was associated with different patterns…

The present study examined the prevalence, characteristics, beliefs, and demographic predictors of parent-child physical violence among South Asian, Middle Eastern, East Asian, and Latina women in the United States. Two hundred fifty-one college-educated women from a middle to high SES (South Asian/Middle Eastern, n = 93; East Asian, n = 72;…

This report presents comprehensive information on juvenile crime, violence, and victimization and on the juvenile justice system. This report brings together the latest available statistics from a variety of sources and includes numerous tables, graphs, and maps, accompanied by analyses in clear, nontechnical language. The report offers Congress,…