Research into Child abuse....

Child abuse is the physical, sexual, emotional mistreatment, or neglect of a child.Child abuse can occur in a child's home, or in the organizations, schools or communities the child interacts with. There are four major categories of child abuse: neglect, physical abuse, psychological/emotional abuse, and child sexual abuse.
The four main types:

Neglect: Child neglect is where the responsible adult does not provide adequately for various needs, including physical, educational ,or medical .

Physical abuse: Physical abuse is physical aggression directed at a child by an adult. It can involve punching, striking, kicking, shoving, slapping ect.

Child sexual abuse: is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent abuses a child for sexual stimulation.

Psychological/emotional abuse:  It could include name-calling, ridicule, degradation, destruction of personal belongings ect.
Out of all the types of abuse we decided to do it on Physcological annd amotional abuse because we felt that that type of abuse takes place more frequently and affects many people in some sort of way.

Statistics into physcological abuse:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/apr/01/baby-p-abuse-children-care-statistics
In sept 2009 there was 699 kids put into care becasue of child abuse in the Uk alone. Approximately 46,700 children in the UK are known to be at risk of abuse right now.
One in four young adults (25.3%) were severely maltreated during childhood.

Additional statistics:
18-24 year olds
One in four young adults (25.3%) had been severely maltreated during childhood.
One in seven young adults (14.5%) had been severely maltreated by a parent or guardian during childhood.
One in nine young adults (11.5%) had experienced severe physical violence during childhood at the hands of an adult.
One in nine young adults (11.3%) had experienced contact sexual abuse during childhood.
Almost one in 10 young adults (9%) had been severely neglected by parents or guardians during childhood.
http://www.nspcc.org.uk/Inform/research/statistics/prevalence_and_incidence_of_child_abuse_and_neglect_wda48740.html