How many children experience child sexual abuse (CSA) in the United States? This question has been difficult for researchers to answer definitively, in part due to delayed disclosure arising from trauma, shame, and humiliation. For over 20 years, various organizations including CHILD USA have...

CHILD USA tips its hat to attorneys Richard Serbin, of The Law Office of Richard M. Serbin, and Alan Perer, of Swensen & Perer, whose skillful and zealous advocacy on behalf of their client, Renee Rice, could change the landscape of child sexual abuse claims in Pennsylvania. On Tuesday October...

Last year was a banner year for helping child sex abuse survivors access justice by changing the statutes of limitations (SOLs).  In 2019, with the public more awake than they’ve ever been to the injustice survivors faced by being shut out of courts, there was a surge of SOL reform, with 23 states...

In 2015, on one cold winter evening, my wife and I rushed our son to a local children’s hospital. We were scared out of our minds and could not understand why our 18-month-old could not stop coughing. Upon arriving at the hospital, we were granted immediate access to an infant emergency room. A...

“As you know, this has been a really hard week to be a black person living in America. I’ve felt a lot of anger, sadness, and frustration, more than I ever can remember having. What gives me hope, though, is knowing that you all are here for me:) I’ve gotten a lot of messages of support from...

It is widely reported that there has been a surge across the country in domestic violence since the COVID-19 stay-at-home orders have been implemented. Hotlines like RAINN are reporting that reports directly from children have increased along the lines of 20%. Then there is the disquieting...

I write this blog post today to share part of my firsthand experience of what my children and I went through in three states, how I overcame it, and my concerns for what may be in store after the pandemic for children. I am a mother of three children. Two of my children were “allegedly” abused by...

At first it is perplexing that child maltreatment rates are now down dramatically across the nation, in some states by as much as fifty percent. Puzzlement gives way to sickening fear when one realizes the reason is that the most common sources of maltreatment reports are schools and doctors’...