Pub. L. 108-36, tit. I, sec. 101

FINDINGS.

EnactedYear: 2003Length: 321 wordsOfficial source
SEC. 101. FINDINGS. Section 2 of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (42 U.S.C. 5101 note) is amended—(1) in paragraph (1), by striking “close to 1,000,000” and inserting “approximately 900,000”;(2) by redesignating paragraphs (2) through (11) as paragraphs (4) through (13), respectively;(3) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:“(2)(A) more children suffer neglect than any other form of maltreatment; and“(B) investigations have determined that approximately 60 percent of children who were victims of maltreatment in 2001 suffered neglect, 19 percent suffered physical abuse, 10 percent suffered sexual abuse, and 7 percent suffered emotional maltreatment;“(3)(A) child abuse can result in the death of a child; “(B) in 2001, an estimated 1,300 children were counted by child protection services to have died as a result of abuse or neglect; and“(C) children younger than 1 year old comprised 41 percent of child abuse fatalities and 85 percent of child abuse fatalities were younger than 6 years of age;”;(4) by striking paragraph (4) (as so redesignated), and inserting the following:“(4)(A) many of these children and their families fail to receive adequate protection and treatment; and“(B) slightly less than half of these children (42 percent in 2001) and their families fail to receive adequate protection or treatment;”;(5) in paragraph (5) (as so redesignated)—(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking “organizations” and inserting “community-based organizations”;117 STAT. 802(B) in subparagraph (D), by striking “ensures” and all that follows through “knowledge,” and inserting “recognizes the need for properly trained staff with the qualifications needed”; and(C) in subparagraph (E), by inserting before the semicolon the following: “, which may impact child rearing patterns, while at the same time, not allowing those differences to enable abuse”;(6) in paragraph (7) (as so redesignated), by striking “this national child and family emergency” and inserting “child abuse and neglect”; and(7) in paragraph (9) (as so redesignated)—(A) by striking “intensive” and inserting “needed”; and(B) by striking “if removal has taken place” and inserting “where appropriate”.
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