Our current system to protect the innocent Children living in abusive households is broken.

Child abuse laws exist on the federal, state and local levels. Legislation serves to keep children free from exploitation, harm, and danger. The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA), passed by the federal government in 1974 and reauthorized in 2010 is the largest body of legislation with regard to the fair, ethical and legal treatment of children and is intended to keep them free from all forms of abuse including physical, sexual, emotional and psychological.

Unfortunately the law is not always successful in being able to help all of the children with the issue. About 900,000 cases appear each year on various forms of child abuse, while only about 300,000 of them are dealt with each year, and sometimes not even resolved in that time, leaving families to struggle.

Physical and sexual abuse of our children gets reported on TV, in newspapers and on the internet on a daily basis.