Child Maltreatment 2002
Figure 3-6     Victims by Parental Status of Perpetrator, 2002

This bar graphs shows that approximately two-fifths (40.3 percent) of child victims were maltreated by their mothers acting alone; another 19.1 percent were maltreated by their fathers acting alone; 18.0 percent were abused by both their mother and father. Victims abused by a nonparental perpetrator accounted for 13.0 percent of the total.

Perpetrator Status	Percent of Victims
Mother Only	40.3
Father Only	19.1
Mother and Father	18.0
Mother and Other	5.4
Father and Other	1.0
Nonparental Perpetrator(s)	13.0
Unknown or Missing	3.2

 

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