Re:In win for infectious diseases, Florida to end all school...
by BugsJustFindMe on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @11:53PM
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> > In the United States, Child Protective Services estimated that 9 out of 1000 children are victims of child maltreatment.
That's in literally just the one year (2012), not across their childhood, and it's just from within cases reported to CPS. There's an absolutely massive difference between the two, and the CDC calls out CPS reports as likely under-representative.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210204022708/https://www.cdc.g...
As an example, your first link isn’t even a real study. Hosting some text on a .gov website doesn’t make it correct. And Statpearls is basically a low quality scammy source. But you don’t need to know that about its reputation - just reading your own link’s content would make it obvious that it is REALLY low quality - in this case written by a couple random grad students.
Since we’re cherry picking things, I’ll quote this from your own source, which shows that even when you use very broad definitions, abuse is extremely rare:
> In the United States, Child Protective Services estimated that 9 out of 1000 children are victims of child maltreatment.
Consider what else you're also wrong about.