As a society, we have unanimity about few things, but one of these is that no child should be harmed by violence. And yet, every five minutes a child somewhere in the world dies a violent death, and half of all children in the world — a billion kids — experience violence each year. Violence — emotional, physical, and sexual — is rampant in high-income countries, including the U.S., as well as in low- and middle-income countries, and across ethnic and racial groups.
Three seminal studies the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has done with partners have revealed both the shocking frequency of violence against children, and the devastating, pervasive, life-long health impacts of violence.
[For more of this story, written by Tom Frieden, go to http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...cycl_b_10964126.html]
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