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1 in 5 Calif. adults with kids at home were abused as kids [GlobalNation.inquirer.net]

 

One out of five California adults with children living in their homes were beaten, kicked or physically abused when they were children, and one in ten were sexually abused, according to data released recently by a children’s health foundation

“I think it’s probably a low estimate,” said Cassandra Joubert, director of the Central California Children’s Institute at California State University, Fresno. “I think these kinds of events within families are hush-hush, swept under the rug, not really talked about.”

[Read more at http://globalnation.inquirer.n...s-kids#ixzz4PTWaScnB]

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