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Child Maltreatment 2000
Table 4-4 Victims to Perpetrator Relationship by Maltreatment Type, 2000 (DCDC, Child File)

The word bold before a number indicates an estimate or a total.

Blank Cell	MALTREATMENT TYPE
Blank Cell	Neglect		Physical Abuse		Sexual Abuse
Perpetrators Relationship to Child Victims	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
Female Parent Acting Alone	131,166	46.9	28,130	32.1	1,659	3.9
Male Parent Acting Alone	33,866	12.1	24,718	28.2	9,057	21.5
Both Parents	61,200	21.9	11,826	13.5	3,409	8.1
Female Parent and Other	18,382	6.6	5,206	5.9	3,276	7.8
Male Parent and Other	4,831	1.7	1,547	1.8	1,690	4.0
Other Relative(s)	7,998	2.9	4,169	4.8	8,180	19.4
Child Day Care Provider(s)	2,302	0.8	794	0.9	1,141	2.7
Foster Parent(s)	1,765	0.6	937	1.1	424	1.0
Residential Facility Staff	497	0.2	225	0.3	175	0.4
Other	10,451	3.7	7,146	8.2	10,520	24.9
Unknown	7,484	2.7	2,909	3.3	2,667	6.3
Total	bold279,942	bold100.1	bold87,607	bold100.1	bold42,198	bold100.0

Based on data from 28 States: Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, and Wyoming. Within the maltreatment types, a child victim is counted each time he or she is associated with a maltreatment and a perpetrator. A child may be counted in more than one type of maltreatment. Note that some of the percentage columns may not total 100.0 percent due to rounding of the category percentages.

May not equal 100 percent due to rounding.

This table lists the following perpetrator relationships to child victims in the first column: female parent acting alone, male parent acting alone, both parents, female parent and other, male parent and other, other relative(s), child day care provider(s), foster parent(s), residential facility staff, other and unknown. The next three columns are the maltreatment types as follows: neglect, physical abuse, and sexual abuse. Below each maltreatment type the chart lists the number of perpetrators in addition to the percentage of perpetrators who were associated with each relationship to the victim.

 

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