Characteristic | Physical Abuse | Neglect | Medical Neglect | Sexual Abuse | Psychological Abuse | Other Abuse | Unknown | ||||
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Overall | 16.0 | 64.1 | 2.2 | 8.8 | 6.6 | 15.1 | 1.2 | ||||
Age | |||||||||||
Ages 0–3 | 12.1 | 72.6 | 2.8 | 1.8 | 5.2 | 16.6 | 1.2 | ||||
Ages 4–7 | 15.3 | 65.1 | 1.8 | 8.2 | 6.8 | 14.9 | 1.2 | ||||
Ages 4–5 | 14.4 | 66.0 | 1.8 | 7.8 | 6.6 | 15.3 | 1.2 | ||||
Ages 6–7 | 16.3 | 64.2 | 1.8 | 8.7 | 7.0 | 14.5 | 1.2 | ||||
Ages 8–11 | 17.1 | 60.8 | 1.9 | 10.7 | 8.0 | 14.9 | 1.1 | ||||
Ages 12–15 | 20.1 | 55.6 | 2.0 | 16.5 | 7.3 | 13.8 | 1.1 | ||||
Ages 16–17 | 22.1 | 55.0 | 1.9 | 16.0 | 6.5 | 14.4 | 1.0 | ||||
Unknown or Missing | 21.1 | 59.1 | 1.9 | 14.3 | 8.6 | 5.0 | 0.1 | ||||
NOTE: Based on data from 51 states. The count of child victims is based on the number of investigations by Child Protective Services that found the child to be a victim of one or more types of maltreatment. The count of victims is, therefore, a report-based count and is a "duplicated count," since an individual child may have been maltreated more than once. Substantiated maltreatment includes the dispositions of substantiated, indicated, or alternative response-victim. States vary in their definition of abuse and neglect. Rows total more than 100 percent since a single child may be the victim of multiple kinds of maltreatment. The category of unknown includes missing and children older than 17 years. | |||||||||||
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System. |