Violence in childhood often leads to an adult life of treatment and disability benefits, imposing a heavy cost on the public purse, a new analysis shows. We need to be more willing to intervene in other people’s families, a researcher says.
Violence against children is a human tragedy, but it also costs society hundreds of millions of kroner. A childhood marked by violence often leaves thousands of people in need of psychiatric care as adults and on disability benefits.
The cost to society is so great that, according to a new estimate, it exceeds 10 billion kroner – every year.
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