Fact Sheet

This handout provides information and guidance to those looking for a therapist to address harmful sibling dynamics.

This handout includes ten practical tips for parents and caregivers to promote positive sibling relationships.

Youth are substantially more likely to be robbed or have property stolen than adults.

Approximately 171,000 cases of child physical abuse were substantiated in 2003. Physical abuse constituted 19% of all child maltreatment…

Juveniles are more likely than adults to experience a hate crime. According to police reports for 1997-1999, juveniles made up nearly a quarter (23…

The National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System defines a maltreatment fatality “as a child dying from abuse or neglect, because either (a) the…

Children have very high rates of crime victimization. In 2000, youth 12 through 17 had crime victimization rates over two times higher than adults,…

Crimes against Children Research Center, University of New Hampshire

Crimes against Children Research Center, University of New Hampshire

Emily M. Douglas and David Finkelhor, May 2005