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I READ THE NEWS TODAY...OH BOY!!!   1. Number one killer of children in America is Child Abuse...Parents and people that "care" for them 2. Number one killer of adolescents is auto accidents, two and three have changed back and forth for years,     and they are suicide and homicide... 3. One of every 50 American children experiences homelessness... 4. In 1980 Autism struck ever one in 10,000 children, today is it 1 in 94. omg 5. There are millions of homeless, runaway and missing children in the streets. 6. Pedophiles, Predators, Sex Offenders, Perverts, Rapist...you see the news! 7. Millions of children and youth are in detention centers, juvenile halls, foster homes and adult jails tonight... 8. Millions and millions of children live with a single parent... 9. Approximately one in seven youth online (10 to 17-years-old) received a sexual solicitation or approach over the Internet 10. 2.9 million children live with their grandparents 11. 24 million kids grow up without a dad 12. AND READ BELOW FOR MORE OF THE STATE AND FATE OF CHILDREN...         New Findings Reinforce the Urgency of Autism as a Major Public Health Crisis, Requiring Intensified Action from the Public and Private Sectors NEW YORK, NY ... Autism Speaks, the nation's largest autism science and advocacy organization, today responded to a new study published in the American Academy of Pediatrics' journal Pediatrics that found a parent-reported autism prevalence rate of one in every 91 American children, including one in 58 boys. The most recent ASD prevalence estimate reported by  Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in 2007 was approximately one in 150 (including one in 94 boys), making autism the most prevalent childhood developmental disorder. Autism Speaks said the new findings reinforced the fact that autism is an urgent and growing public health crisis that affects most individuals across their lifespan and demands a commensurate level of action from both the public and private sectors.   1.1 million incarcerated persons are parents to an estimated 2.3 million children.     (U.S. Bureau of Justice stats)   160,000 kids and teens a day stay home from school because of bullying. Demi Lovato PSA - National Bullying Prevention Week and TeensAgainstBullying.org   According to the AFCARS Report (Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting ystem Report), there were 513,000 in the foster care system on September 30, 2005 in the United States.  The could possibly be one million now..   Between 1.6 and 2.8 million youth run away in a year, and the County of Los Angeles is now the homeless capital of the United States.   Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) reported some disturbing statistics about the number of youth that run away from their foster homes.  The worst part is they admit they have permanently lost track of the majority of teen runaways.    One of every 50 American children experiences homelessness, according to a new report that says most states have inadequate plans to address the worsening and often-overlooked problem.  The report being released Tuesday by the National Center on Family Homelessness gives Connecticut the best ranking. Texas is at the bottom.  "These kids are the innocent victims, yet it seems somehow or other they get left out," said the center's president, Dr. Ellen Bassuk. "Why are they America's outcasts?"  The report analyzes data from 2005-2006. It estimates that 1.5 million children experienced home- lessness at least once that year, and says the problem is surely worse now because of the foreclosures and job losses of the deepening recession.  "If we could freeze-frame it now, it would be bad enough," said Democratic Sen. Robert Casey of Pennsylvania, who wrote a foreword to the report. "By end of this year, it will be that much worse."      Among the over 141,000 children served by Children’s Advocacy Centers around the country from January through June 2011, some startling statistics include: •53,932 children were ages 0 to 6 years •51,196 children were ages 7 to 12 years •36,131 children were ages 13 to 18 years •95,120 children reported sexual abuse •25,414 children reported physical abuse •88,312 children participated in forensic interviewing at a Children’s Advocacy Center Among the over 116,000 alleged offenders investigated for instances of child abuse from January through June 2011, some startling statistics include: •75,829 were 18+ years old •11,973 were ages 13 to 17 years •7,911 were under age 13 years •45,496 were a parent or step-parent of the victim •23,763 were related to the child victim in another way •36,628 were an unrelated person the victim knew   Children are our greatest gifts. We must protect them at all costs. Since 9-Eleven, 4,500 American soldiers have been killed in the Iraq & Afghanistan war. During that same period, over 17,700 American children have been killed by their caregivers - all documented. We are not even talking about the ones left blinded, paralyzed or brain damaged, etc. There are over 5 million children abused in the U.S. each year. We had the bird flu, mad cow disease, tainted spinach - national news...words of epidemic blasted on front page newspapers....where is the outrage for the children here? I it is not an epidemic, I don't know what is.     http://thechildrenswalloftears.org   In another recent survey in Massachusetts, almost 1 in 5 female high-school students said they had experienced physical and/or sexual violence in a dating relationship It is a Chicago public school full of energy and spirit. It has about 800 girls, and 115 of them have something in common – something you might find disturbing.   THEY ARE PREGNANT.  BELOW IS ONLY ONE OF THOUSANDS OF STORIES IN THE NEWS...ONE AT A TIME... (CBS/AP)  A day after laying Shaniya Davis to rest, the 5-year-old girl's aunt blasted the justice system for providing her alleged rapist and murderer with a better quality of life than many Americans have.   "We have a lot of people … [who have] lost their jobs, who don't have health care, even children that are in homes don't get three square meals a day. But this man sits with guards protecting him, he's receiving free medical, free meals," Carey Lockhart-Davis said on CBS' "The Early Show" Monday. Mario McNeill has been charged with first-degree murder and first-degree rape of a child. Authorities say Davis was strangled to death. The 29-year-old McNeill was charged previously with kidnapping, with authorities saying he took Davis from her Fayetteville home. Her body was found Monday in thick underbrush off a rural North Carolina road after searchers spent nearly a week looking for her.  The girl's mother, Antoinette Davis, is charged with trafficking her daughter and child abuse involving prostitution. The figures are devastating. At any one time on the Internet it is estimated there are around three quarters of a million predators searching for sites featuring child pornography. The UN Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, Najat Maalla M’jid in a report to the latest session of the Human Rights Council says, “there is more and more child pornography on the Internet, becoming what is today a very profitable business, with a worldwide market value estimated at billions of dollars.”

According To Coalition For The Homeless,

More Than 16,000 Children Were In Shelters By End Of September

Mary Brosnahan, longtime executive director of the Coalition for the Homeless used the city's own data, and says homelessness has been

increasing each of the last five years, and currently is at an all-time high. At the end of September, 10,494 homeless families lived in shelters,

including 16,615 homeless children. 

"What does that mean for those children, and their future? That they will spend a substantial amount of their childhood …

in a homeless shelter?" asked Bill de Blasio, the chairman of the City Council General Welfare Committee. 

 

Commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) is widespread in U.S. cities and constitutes "America's dirty little secret,"

said survivor Theresa Flores during NBC's The Today Show this morning. She will be featured on the MSNBC special,

"Sex Slaves: The Teen Trade,"

 

One in every 6 boys will be sexually molested by 16 years of age, and 93% know their attackers.

 

Reporting from Washington - More than a month after the FBI announced it had rescued 52 children from "sexual slavery"

in a nationwide crackdown on child prostitution, none of the victims is receiving the help experts say is necessary to overcome

such trauma and rejoin society.  Experts underscore that sex-trafficking victims struggle to find the care they need once they

escape from an industry that may involve at least 100,000 children in the U.S.

 

Lois Lee, founder of a 24-bed Los Angeles shelter called Children of the Night, sees the problems firsthand."  When America's

child prostitutes are identified by the FBI or police, they are incarcerated for whatever reason possible, whether it be an unrelated

crime or 'material witness hold,' " she said.  "Then they are dumped back in the dysfunctional home, ill-equipped group home or

foster care, and [often] disappear back into the underground of prostitution with no voice."

 

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