part of the reason why the US ranges high in child abuse, adult abuse and the like is because the US has laws about mandated reporting, many places outside the USA do not have the same child protection laws that other places have. Another reason the US stats are high is because some of the things that the US considers to be abusive other locations outside the US do not have the same considerations of what is abuse, some locations dont even have a standard for abuse. Another reason the US stats are high is because the US has child labor laws because we consider putting children to work in the work force to be abusive. many other locations outside the us still use children for labor and work.

yup stats can sure be misleading. our stats may be higher than other places but abuse happens everywhere.