Domestic Violence and children

In class last thursday we learned there are approximately 2 million cases of child abuse reported annually. This statistic alone is sad, but to go even farther and think of all the children that are getting abused and not reported every year is even more devestating. Working for Visinet, which is health and human services of Nebraska, doing supervised visitations and transportation I have seen first hand how domestic violence and child abuse affects children. One little boy confided in me how he dad gets "rough" with him, so I called it in. The cops showed up and asked his Dad about the incident, obviously he isn't going to confess, and the boy was sent home stating it was a misunderstanding. After this situation, he was scared I was going to "tell" on him. After telling me random things that didn't have any negitive aspects of, he would ask if I was going to tell anyone. Like we were talking in class, it takes a lot of evidence to help a kid, but I feel better that hopefully since my call, calls after mine will be taken more seriously.