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The study aimed to identify the reality of violence against children in Saudi society by determining the extent of violence against children by region, identifying patterns of violence against children according to the type of abuse they are exposed to, and identifying the children most exposed to violence by gender, in addition to revealing The most common family members commit violence against children, based on statistics from the National Society for Human Rights. This study is a descriptive and analytical study. The qualitative approach was used by using the content analysis method for the total statistical data for the period from 2014-2018 AD. It has become clear from the statistical data: that the highest percentage of violence against children over the five years occurred in the Riyadh region, followed by the Makkah Al-Mukarramah region, then the Medina region, and that the highest types of abuse to which children are exposed is physical abuse, then deprivation of education, then deprivation of Identification documents indicate that the highest degree of violence against children was committed against females, then males, and that the family member who committed the most violence against children was the father, then the mother, then the stepmother.