Maltreatment statistics
    
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Child maltreatment statistics - 19991
Estimated U.S. victims of maltreatment:
- Total: 826,000
- Rate per 1,000 children: 11.8
- Decreasing since 1993, when it was 15.3.
Breakdown by types of maltreatment (totals more than 100% because some children suffered more than one type of abuse):
- Neglect - 58%
- Physical abuse - 21%
- Sexual abuse - 11%
- Other, including abandonment, threats of harm, and congenital drug addiction - 36%
Rate of sexual abuse:
- Girls - 1.6 per 1,000
- Boys - 0.4 per 1,000
- Overall - 1.3 per 1,000, has declined from 1.9 per 1,000 in 1995
Estimated deaths due to maltreatment:
- Total: 1,100
- From physical abuse and/or neglect - 87%
- From sexual abuse - none
| Rates of abuse: Number of children per 1,000 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type of maltreatment | 1995 | 1999 | Change |
| Neglect | 7.7 | 6.5 | down 16% |
| Physical abuse | 3.6 | 2.5 | down 31% |
| Sexual abuse | 1.9 | 1.3 | down 32% |
| Psychological | 0.7 | 0.9 | up 29% |
| Medical neglect | 0.6 | 0.4 | down 33% |
| Other | 1.7 | 4.4 | up 159% |
| Perpetrators | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type of maltreatment | Parent(s) | Parent & other | Relative | Care provider | Other or unknown |
| Sexual abuse | 37% | 13% | 18% | 3% | 29% |
| Overall | 78% | 9% | 4% | 2% | 7% |
1.
U.S. Department of Heath and Human Services Administration on Children, Youth, and Families,
Child Maltreatment 1999*,
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2001.
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