Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect
Strategy	Approach
Strengthen economic supports to families	Strengthening household financial security Family-friendly work policies
Change social norms to support parents and positive parenting	Public engagement and education campaigns Legislative approaches to reduce corporal punishment
Provide quality care and education early in life	Preschool enrichment with family engagement Improved quality of child care through licensing and accreditation
Enhance parenting skills to promote healthy child development	Early childhood home visitation Parenting skill and family relationship approaches
Intervene to lessen harms and prevent future risk	Enhanced primary care Behavioral parent training programs Treatment to lessen harms of abuse and neglect exposure Treatment to prevent problem behavior and later involvement in violence

One major way I would measure success would be by the decreasing number of child abuse cases and the overall response/follow up once a report has been given.

What Are We FIGHTING FOR?

When thinking about irradiating child abuse and maltreatment, we have to believe that there is a better world than the one we’re currently experiencing. We’re fighting for the safety of children, not just outside the home, but INSIDE the home as well. We’re fighting for children to have the support, protection and backup to effectively, quickly and efficiently deal with all reports of child abuse. We are fighting for a better world where children can be children, instead of objects, pets, slaves or servants. And we’re fighting to prevent the abuse from happening in the first place.

What Are We FIGHTING AGAINST?

We’re also fighting against child maltreatment – Child maltreatment is behavior toward a child that is outside the norms of conduct and entails substantial risk of causing physical or emotional harm. Four types of maltreatment are generally recognized: physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse (psychologic abuse), and neglect ^[1]. We’re fighting against child trafficking – the recruitment, intimidation, transit, relocation, concealing or receipt of children under the age of 18 with the intent of exploitation, and includes sex and labor trafficking.  We’re also fighting against child pornography – Child pornography is a form of child sexual exploitation. Federal law defines child pornography as any visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct involving a minor (persons less than 18 years old).  Images of child pornography are also referred to as child sexual abuse images ^[2].

[1] https://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/pediatrics/child-maltreatment/overview-of-child-maltreatment#:~:text=Child%20maltreatment%20is%20behavior%20toward,psychologic%20abuse)%2C%20and%20neglect.

[2] https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ceos/child-pornography