In everyday life filled with rapid transformation and transition, little care is often taken for children and their unhindered growth and development. Less and less attention and care about monitoring abused and neglected children brings negative effects for their unhindered healthy development and integration into society. Child neglect is considered as the negligence of parents or adults in the family/society whose duty it is to provide them with the basic needs that a child should have. Society that takes care of its citizens and the people around it, and thus children, should provide health care and conditions for the acquisition of social and educational skills as well as their protection from neglect and abuse. Child abuse is part of the trauma that a child goes through from a bully, and can manifest as psychological, physical, emotional, and sexual. Prevention of violence contributes to the improvement and protection of the child as a victim. The family, health care institutions, pedagogical institutions and community are obliged to react promptly if they notice one of these negative factors that leave an indelible negative scar on the child. The paper conducts research with the intention to determine the form and manner of abuse, the frequency of abuse, the type of perpetrator, and the manner of caring for abused children. The aim of this graduate thesis is to gather knowledge about the ways and forms of abuse, so that adequate services can contribute to the smooth, proper, and complete children growth. The data presented in this paper are based on the analysis of data provided by the Zagreb Child and Youth Protection Center for the purposes of preparing this thesis. These data are based on anonymous data on children and young people collected as part of the annual statistics of the Polyclinic, and this paper presents data relating to the five-year period from 2014. to 2019. The submitted data were statistically processed and presented in the paper. The data refer to a total of 7005 children, of which 3712 boys and 3293 girls. The results indicate the presence of violence against children in various forms and situations that are not easy for children to disclose and often disclosure is delayed. Therefore, it is necessary to educate and make the public aware that violence against children is constantly happening and to implement prevention programs modeled on developed countries, the aim of which is to reduce the frequency and intensity of abuse.