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The statistical numbers/percentages given according to childwelfare.gov are as follows:
No matter how the fatal abuse occurs, one fact of great concern is that the perpetrators are, by definition, individuals responsible for the care and supervision of their victims.
Parents, acting alone or with another parent, were responsible for 80.0 percent of child abuse or neglect fatalities.
More than one-quarter (27.1 percent) were perpetrated by the mother acting alone,
17.1 percent were perpetrated by the father acting alone,
and 21.2 percent were perpetrated by the mother and father acting together.
Nonparents (including kin and child care providers, among others) were responsible for 14.3 percent of child fatalities,
and child fatalities with unknown perpetrator relationship data accounted for 5.6 percent of the total.
There is no single profile of a perpetrator of fatal child abuse, although certain characteristics reappear in many studies. Frequently, the perpetrator is a young adult in his or her mid-20s, without a high school diploma, living at or below the poverty level, depressed, and who may have difficulty coping with stressful situations. Fathers and mothers’ boyfriends are most often the perpetrators in abuse deaths; mothers are more often at fault in neglect
fatalities.
This site http://home.earthlink.net/~elnunes/stats.htm also has some fascinating statistical information on this and other abuse/injury topics in regards to children and who the perpetrators are.
No matter how the fatal abuse occurs, one fact of great concern is that the perpetrators are, by definition, individuals responsible for the care and supervision of their victims.
Parents, acting alone or with another parent, were responsible for 80.0 percent of child abuse or neglect fatalities.
More than one-quarter (27.1 percent) were perpetrated by the mother acting alone,
17.1 percent were perpetrated by the father acting alone,
and 21.2 percent were perpetrated by the mother and father acting together.
Nonparents (including kin and child care providers, among others) were responsible for 14.3 percent of child fatalities,
and child fatalities with unknown perpetrator relationship data accounted for 5.6 percent of the total.
There is no single profile of a perpetrator of fatal child abuse, although certain characteristics reappear in many studies. Frequently, the perpetrator is a young adult in his or her mid-20s, without a high school diploma, living at or below the poverty level, depressed, and who may have difficulty coping with stressful situations. Fathers and mothers’ boyfriends are most often the perpetrators in abuse deaths; mothers are more often at fault in neglect
fatalities.
This site http://home.earthlink.net/~elnunes/stats.htm also has some fascinating statistical information on this and other abuse/injury topics in regards to children and who the perpetrators are.
Black is that birth to two?
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