A 1992 study for the Michigan Children's Trust Fund (Caldwell, 1992). Analysts figured that child maltreatment and inadequate prenatal care cost the State approximately $823 million. Michigan's total estimated annual cost of child maltreatment and inadequate prenatal care included direct and indirect costs associated with the following:
- Protective services ($38 million)
- Foster care ($74 million)
- Health costs of low birth weight babies ($256 million)
- Medical treatment of injuries due to abuse ($5 million)
- Special education costs ($6 million)
- Psychological care for child maltreatment victims ($16 million)
- Juvenile justice system and correction services ($207 million)
- Adult criminality ($175 million)
- Projected tax revenue lost from infant deaths ($46 million)
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