The information that goes into statistics is based on information that comes directly from DoCS.

Those who gather statistics are lead to believe that the statistics are accurate.

What they are not aware of is the bottom line... And that is the fact that DoCS do not carry out assessments properly, they do not investigate notifications properly and they do remove children from perfectly good homes who should have never been removed in the first place.

So what it boils down to is the fact that the statistics are actually very wrong and blown way out of proportion compared to the actual truth of the numbers of genuinely abused children.