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We promote compassionate, effective policies to protect children and prevent their maltreatment through our Legislative Advocacy.
First, at that meeting, I pointed out that the methodological changes that were planned for the study all would have the effect of raising the count of abused and neglected children . In fact, Sedlak and her colleagues described (in a report to HHS) how they planned to "fine-tune" the study to "ensure that categories of key participants who were most likely to encounter suspected maltreatment cases in the [1986 incidence study] are given higher probability of being included in the [new study]."
An estimated 1,249,000 children were harmed by these forms of maltreatment in 1993.
The more it seems that such serious maltreatment is common, the less likely are agencies to respond firmly.
However, there are survey data (that Deborah Daro and I collect) and data on homicide that indicate strongly that it is very unlikely that there is any kind of major increase in the rate of child maltreatment in the country.