Men or women?
" The DHHS data shows that of children abused by one parent between 2001 and 2006, 70.6% were abused by their mothers, whereas only 29.4% were abused by their fathers.
And of children who died at the hands of one parent between 2001 and 2006, 70.8% were killed by their mothers, whereas only 29.2% were killed by their fathers.
Furthermore, contrary to media portrayals that leave the viewer with the impression that only girls are ever harmed, boys constituted fully 60% of child fatalities. (Table 4-3, p. 71, Child Maltreatment 2006, reports that 675 boys died in 2006 as compared to 454 girls)."
Breaking the Science 71 of Children Killed by One Parent are Killed by Their Mothers 60 of Victims are Boys
Interesting statistics. And ones I had not seen before.
I dug into the stats a little more
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/opre/nis4_report_exec_summ_pdf_jan2010.pdf
Perpetrator’s relationship to the child. The majority of all children
countable under the Harm Standard (81%) were maltreated by their biological parents.
This held true both for the abused children (64% were abused by biological parents) and
for those neglected (92% were neglected by biological parents).
Biological parents were the most closely related perpetrators for 71% of
physically abused children and for 73% of emotionally abused children. The pattern was
distinctly different for sexual abuse. More than two-fifths (42%) of the sexually abused
children were sexually abused by someone other than a parent (whether biological or
nonbiological) or a parent’s partner, whereas just over one-third (36%) were sexually
abused by a biological parent. In addition, severity of harm from physical abuse varied
by the perpetrator’s relationship to the child. A physically abused child was more likely
to sustain a serious injury when the abuser was not a parent.
Perpetrator’s sex. Children were somewhat more likely to be maltreated by
female perpetrators than by males: 68% of the maltreated children were maltreated by a
female, whereas 48% were maltreated by a male. (Some children were maltreated by
both.) Of children maltreated by biological parents, mothers maltreated the majority
(75%) whereas fathers maltreated a sizable minority (43%). In contrast, male
perpetrators were more common for children maltreated by nonbiological parents or
parents’ partners (64%) or by other persons (75%).
The predominant sex of perpetrators of abuse was different from that of
neglect. Female perpetrators were more often responsible for neglect (86% of children
neglected by females versus 38% by males). This finding is congruent with the fact that
mothers (biological or other) tend to be the primary caretakers and are the primary
persons held accountable for any omissions and/or failings in caretaking. In contrast,
males more often were abusers (62% of children were abused by males versus 41% by
females). The prevalence of male perpetrators was strongest in the category of sexual
abuse, where 87% of children were abused by a male compared to only 11% by a female.
Among all abused children, those abused by their biological parents were
about equally likely to have been abused by mothers as by fathers (51% and 54%,
respectively), but those abused by nonbiological parents or parents’ partners, or by other,
perpetrators were much more likely to be abused by males (74% or more by males versus
26% or less by females)
