"In 2014, there were 7,509 confirmed victims of child abuse and neglect in Central Texas, Region 7" ("Statistics About Child Abuse"). Region 7 of Texas includes Travis Country, right here in Austin.
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"Today alone, 185 Texas children will be victims of abuse" ("Child Abuse in Texas"). If this rate continues, there will be 67,525 abused Texan children in one whole year.
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The mission of Helping Hand Home for Children (HHH) is to “ignore the global scale because if you focus on the hundreds of thousands of children in the foster care system nationwide, you could lose focus on the individual children you serve,” - Ted Keyser, Executive Director of HHH.
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"According to the Texas Commission on Children and Youth, children who grow up in violent homes are:
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