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U.S. Health and Human Service - Annual Child Maltreatment Reports Link
1. Year
2. Referrals (Millions)
3. Number of Children Referred (Millions)
4. Percentage Screened for a Response by Child Protective Service (CPS) agencies.
5. Pecentage where at least 1 Child was found to be a victim by CPS Responses.
6. Number Of Children confirmed as victims by CPS agencies.
1 2 3 4 5 6
2009 3.3 6 61.9% 25.0% 760,000 Duplicate (702,000 Unique) Link
2008 3.3 6 62.5% 23.7% 772,000 Link
2007 3.2 5.8 61.7% 25.2% 794,000 Link
2006 3.3 6 61.7 30.0% 905,000 Link
2005 3.3 6 62.1 28.5% 899,000 Link
2004 3 N/A N/A 30.0% 872,000 Link
Who Reported Child Maltreatment? 2009 Link
Teachers 16.5%, Law Enforcement and Legal Personnel 16.4%, Social Services Staff 11.4%, Anonymous Sources 8.9%, Other Relatives 7%, Parents 6.8%, Friends and Neighbors, 4.9%.
For 2009, professionals submitted three-fifths of reports. Professional report sources are persons who encountered the alleged child victim as part of their occupation, such as child daycare providers and medical personnel. Nonprofessional report sources are persons who did not have a relationship with the alleged victim based on their occupation and includes friends, neighbors, and relatives. "Other" report sources are persons who had a relationship with the alleged victim that is not included as an NCANDS code and includes clergy members, sports coaches, and camp counselors.
What were the Most Common Types of Maltreatment? 2009 Link
More than 75 percent (78.3%) suffered neglect;
More than 15 percent (17.8%) suffered physical abuse;
Less than 10 percent (9.5%) suffered sexual abuse; and
Less than 10 percent (7.6%) suffered from psychological maltreatment.
As in prior years, the greatest proportion of children suffered from neglect. A child may have suffered from multiple forms of maltreatment and was counted once for each maltreatment type.
One-fifth (20.8%) of victims and 3.6 percent of nonvictims were placed in foster care;
Court-appointed representatives were assigned to 16.2 percent of victims.
Who Abused and Neglected Children? 2009 Link
Four-fifths (80.9%) of duplicate perpetrators of child maltreatment were parents, and another 6.3
percent were other relatives of the victim;
Of the duplicate perpetrators who were parents, four-fifths (84.7%) were the biological parents of the victim;
Women comprised a larger percentage of all unique perpetrators than men, 53.8 percent compared
to 44.4 percent;
Four-fifths (83.2%) of all unique perpetrators were between the ages of 20 and 49 years.
For the analyses included in this report, a perpetrator is the person who is responsible for the abuse or neglect of a child. Forty-nine States reported case-level data about perpetrators using unique identifiers. In these States, the total duplicate count of perpetrators was 894,951 and the total unique count of perpetrators was 512,790.
Who Were the Child Victims? 2009 Link
Less than 1 Year Old 12.6%
1 Years Old 7.4%
2 Years Old 7.0%
3 Years Old 6.4%
4-7 Years Old 23.3%
8-11 Years Old 18.8%
12-15 Years Old 17.8%
16-17 Years Old 6.3%
Victims in the age group of birth to 1 year had the highest rate of victimization at 20.6 per 1,000 children of the same age group in the national population.
Victimization was split between the sexes with boys accounting for 48.2 percent and girls accounting for 51.1 percent. Less than 1 percent of victims had an unknown sex.
Eighty-seven percent of victims were comprised of three races or ethnicities�African-American(22.3%), Hispanic (20.7%), and White (44.0%).
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