Child maltreatment, or child abuse as it is sometimes called, is behavior that inflicts substantial harm on a child. These behaviors or acts by an adult towards a child include physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, or neglect; or the inability to provide for the child's basic needs. Child maltreatment is associated with neurological damage, physical growth retardation, physical injury, and psychological and emotional problems (Butchart & Harvey, 2006; Guterman, 2001). Child abuse is also linked to increased risk of drug abuse, eating disorders, alcoholism, obesity, smoking, high-risk sexual behaviors, and suicide (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014; Merrick & Latzman , 2014). Historically, awareness of child maltreatment in the United States dates back to 1962, when Henry Kempe, a pediatrician, wrote an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association on “battered child syndrome” (as cited in Child Maltreatment Prevention: Past, Present and future, 2011). In the article Kempe shed light on the children who suffered. States have passed child abuse reporting laws (Child Maltreatment Prevention: Past, Present, and Future, 2011). In 1974, the first federal law on the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect was enacted (Child Maltreatment Prevention: Past, Present, and Future, 2011). These acts and laws have been instrumental in paving the way for ongoing awareness, prevention and interventions for victims of abuse and their families. As awareness of the problem increases, the number of children under eighteen who are identified as victims of abuse each year is shocking; Every year thousands of children in the United States are identified as victims of maltreatment. It is estimated that one in four children in the United States experience child abuse at some point in their lives (Finkelhor, Turner, Ormond, & Hamby,