Who commits more child abuse?

Callum · #1 26th-July-2008

Big question: Who is most likely to be the perpretrators of child abuse (overall: physical, mental, sexual etc. or individually in these categories)?
The mother or father? And what evidence i.e. stats can you provide. This guy I'm arguing with is obsessed with the notion that fathers commit almost all child abuse.

To me that notion seems flawed. I mean if children are less likely to mess with Dad while growing up and mothers are more likely to have problems setting boundaries - in turn making her vulnerable to the children attacking her - wouldn't it make sense to assume that for whatever reason the father would be less likely to commit child abuse? Thats just me thinking out loud and I heard in general that most hooligans, criminals come from mother headed households and that most rapists were abused by women (usually their family) at some point in their childhood.

Any help much obliged

shaazam · #2 27th-July-2008

who raises most children nowdays

the man has been minimalised outta the child rearing equation any how

he is basically a sperm donor and a patsy half the time tp forward the peonage cheques to MOMMA

so Momma raises the kids

look at the numbers of psychopaths criminals of all sorts and the cases of mental illness abroad nowdays

who was as likely have programmed these misfits and losers

that's right

odds on

MOMMA

Marx · #3 27th-July-2008

Link #1 deals with fatherless homes

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Originally Posted by Tyrael

Myths and Facts Concerning Divorced Families

More information from Tyrael here,

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Originally Posted by Tyrael

Fatherless Homes Breed Violence

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Originally Posted by outdoors

Schoppe-Sullivan said the findings, which are published in the Journal of Family Psychology, are important because they reveal what mothers do on a day-to-day basis can have the potential to influence the father's behavior.

And one of the most compelling of all...

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Originally Posted by Rebadow

US Department Of Health & Human Services:Child Maltreatment 2003:

Victims by Parental Status of Perpetrator

Any questions?

Also, click here to see Percentage of Child Victims by Race.
Click here to see the table of Maltreatment Victimization by Sex (Boy victims = 378,374. girl victims = 405,505).

Fatalities by Perpetrator Relationship, 2003

Interesting, eh?

National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS)

Quote from: "Male[/b] Perpetrators of Child Maltreatment: Findings from NCANDS (January, 2005)"]
Of all reported cases in the State data set, slightly less than one-half of all perpetrators were male. Of these, about one-half (51%) were biological fathers, an additional one-fifth occupied some other parental role (adoptive fathers, stepfathers, mothers' boyfriends), and about one-quarter were in nonparental relationships (including relatives, foster parents, day care providers, or friends) to their victims. In comparison, among female perpetrators, 86 percent were biological mothers.

OK, can sombody tell me why the hell are we (given those stats I bolded in the quote) reading a document called "Male Perpertrators Of Child Maltreatment, while there is no such document for Female Perpetrators of Child Maltreatment, despite the fact (BY THEIR OWN DATA) that female perpetrators are prevalent?!?!

Anyway, some interesting quotes form this 2005 report:

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Of the 192,321 unique perpetrators in the data set, 89,028 (46%) were male and 103,293 (54%) were female.

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Biological fathers were less likely than other male perpetrators to act alone. When acting in concert with the mother, biological fathers were more likely to be involved with younger children and more likely to be involved with neglect than other types of maltreatment.

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In 10 of the 18 States, data were provided on whether the perpetrator was in a caregiver role with the victim at the time of the maltreatment. If the perpetrator was in a caregiving role with any of the associated victims, he or she was considered to be a caretaker. Female perpetrators were much more likely to be in a caregiving role than were male perpetrators; 87 percent of females were caregivers compared with 60 percent of males.

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When compared with female perpetrators, male perpetrators were involved with more children older than age 8 and fewer children younger than age 1. Twenty-one percent of females were associated with child victims under age 1, while only 11 percent of male perpetrators were associated with infant victims; and 29 percent of male perpetrators were associated with victims between age 12 and 15, compared with 22 percent of females.

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Male perpetrators were associated more often only with female victims, while female perpetrators were associated with male and female victims in almost equal numbers. However, this pattern does not hold true for all categories of male perpetrators. More than one-half of the perpetrators who were stepfathers or adoptive fathers maltreated girls.

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Among biological fathers, 55 percent always acted alone, while 41 percent were associated with the mother at least once, and 4 percent acted with another person. A slightly larger percentage of stepfathers (64%) and adoptive fathers (60%) always acted alone.

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Male and female perpetrators had distinct patterns of maltreatment. More than one-third of male perpetrators (36%) were associated with neglect; 66 percent of female perpetrators were associated with neglect. A quarter of males (26%) were associated with sexual abuse, while 2 percent of female perpetrators were associated with sexual abuse. The percentages associated with physical abuse were comparable, although slightly higher for males (22%) than for females (18%).

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For both adoptive fathers and stepfathers, physical abuse was the most frequent type. Nonparental perpetrators were primarily associated with sexual abuse (68%). Biological fathers had the smallest percentage of sexual abuse cases (7%) compared to between 20 percent and 30 percent for boyfriends, adoptive fathers, and stepfathers.

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Within 12 months, it was projected that 7 percent of biological fathers were associated with a second maltreated child, while approximately 4 percent of adoptive and stepfathers, 7 percent of boyfriends, and 8 percent of nonparents experienced an additional report of maltreatment in the same year.

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Among biological fathers who acted with mothers, 25 percent were associated with children under age 1, but among those who acted alone only 9 percent were associated with infant victims. Among other groups of male perpetrators, very few were associated with the youngest victims regardless of whether they acted with the mother or alone. Biological fathers were associated with fewer preteen (age 8-11) and teenage (age 12-15) victims than were the other male perpetrators, regardless of whether they acted alone or with the mother.

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Among biological fathers acting alone, 42 percent had maltreated girls; 55 percent of father surrogates acting alone and 68 percent of male nonparents acting alone were associated with girls.

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This study confirms earlier findings (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2004) that females outnumbered male perpetrators among cases investigated by CPS, by a margin of 10 percent. Males were slightly older than females, but otherwise no other basic demographic differences between male and female perpetrators were observed.

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The study also confirmed NCANDS findings (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2004) that patterns of sexual abuse were more common among male perpetrators, whereas neglect was more common among female perpetrators. About one-fifth of perpetrators, both male and female, physically abused their victims. The maltreatment pattern for biological fathers was similar to the overall female pattern — that is, the majority was associated only with neglect, and less than 10 percent were sexually abusive, although about one-quarter were physically abusive.

There are MANY more threads on this issue, in this very subforum (facts & figures)... potter away, scurry and dig, and you will find more than enough support for your assertion.

Feckless · #4 27th-July-2008

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A national survey in the United Kingdom of the childhood experiences of young adults ages eighteen to twenty-four found that mothers were more likely than other household members to be violent toward their children. Child Maltreatment in the United Kingdom—A Study of the Prevalence of Child Abuse and Neglect (Pat Cawson, Corinne Wattam, Sue Brooker, and Graham Kelly, National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, London, England, November 20, 2000) was the most comprehensive report of childhood maltreatment ever conducted in that country, involving 2,869 interviews about young people's childhood experiences. Of the 11% of respondents who reported physical abuse, nearly half (49%) indicated that their mothers were the perpetrators of violence. Violence took the forms of knocking down the child, burning, threatening with a knife or a gun, kicking hard, shaking, or hitting with a fist or a hard implement. Another 40% of the respondents identified their attackers as their fathers. Some Experts Say Social Factors Cause Abuse by Mothers

Straus and Smith, in "Family Patterns and Child Abuse," found that women are as likely, if not more likely, as men to abuse their children. The authors believed child abuse by women could be explained in terms of social factors rather than psychological factors. Women are more likely to abuse their children because they are more likely to have much greater responsibility for raising the children, which means that they are more exposed to the trials and frustrations of child rearing.
Women spend more "time at risk" while tending to their children. "Time at risk" refers to the time a potential abuser spends with the victim. This would apply to any form of domestic violence, such as spousal abuse and elder abuse. For example, elderly people are more likely to experience abuse from each other, not from a caregiver, if one is present. This is not because elderly couples are more violent than caregivers, but because they spend more time with each other.

http://www.libraryindex.com/pages/13...E-MOTHERS.html

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Child Abuse an Overview: Abusers

Most abusers are members of the victim's family, either a caretaker or parent or a close relative. This includes physical, emotional, and sexual abuse and child neglect.1,2,10,27 90% of confirmed physical abuse and neglect cases involve caretakers of children.10 Contrary to common belief, males and females perpetrate abuse against their own children at surprisingly similar rates. "Among all abused children, those abused by their birth parents were about equally likely to have been abused by mothers as by fathers (50% and 58%, respectively), but those abused by other parents, parent-substitutes, or other, nonparental perpetrators were much more likely to be abused by males (80 to 90% by males versus 14 to 15% by females). Children who had been physically abused by their birth parents were more likely to have suffered at the hands of their mothers than their fathers (60% versus 48%), while those who had been physically abused by other parents or parent- substitutes were much more likely to have been abused by their fathers or father-substitutes (90% by their fathers versus 19% by their mothers)."27 On the whole, children are somewhat more likely to be maltreated by female perpetrators than by males: "65 percent of the maltreated children had been maltreated by a female, whereas 54 percent had been maltreated by a male.

http://www.findcounseling.com/journa...e/abusers.html

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Children in some Army families are vulnerable to abuse and neglect by their mothers when their fathers are away at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, a large Pentagon-funded study finds.Mothers were three times more likely to have a substantiated report of child mistreatment when their soldier husbands were deployed than when the fathers were home, according to the research. Mothers at home were nearly four times as likely to neglect their children and nearly twice as likely to physically abuse them during deployment periods.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20056362/

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Mothers Are Responsible for "ONLY" 55% of Child Killings!

How government "statisticians" promote anti-male stereotyping

Women are over half of the defendants (55%) in "only" one category of family murder: parents killing their offspring.

Biological fathers are 1/58th to 1/234th as likely as mothers to murder their own children.
Those who grew up in SMHs (single-mother households) constitute 76% of the prison population.
An SMH is 42 times more dangerous to a child than a firearm.

Children are 3 times more likely to be fatally abused in Mother-only Households than in Father-only Households, and 73 times more likely in households where the mother cohabits.
Compared to biological fathers, children are 59 times more likely to be fatally abused by women.

Children raised in Single-mother Households are 8 times more likely to become murderers than children raised in families.

More statistics and stuff at http://christianparty.net/juststat.htm

Stuff his mouth.....

shaazam · #5 27th-July-2008

""Some Experts Say Social Factors Cause Abuse by Mothers""

there is that sunset clause again for all wimins crimes and misdemeanours

GrizzlyPenguin · #6 27th-July-2008

Holy shit, Marx, those are some amazing figures. -clicks and saves-, they should be quite useful. But seriously, it just looks so wrong when seeing the same information women use against men, yet it's a huge contradiction when ALL of the information is put on the table. It's almost worse than I thought.

Marx · #7 27th-July-2008

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Originally Posted by GrizzlyPenguin

Holy shit, Marx, those are some amazing figures. -clicks and saves-, they should be quite useful. But seriously, it just looks so wrong when seeing the same information women use against men, yet it's a huge contradiction when ALL of the information is put on the table. It's almost worse than I thought.

But that is how feminism has succeeded in spreading their hatred of men into popular culture... They tell partial information, they lie through omission; their neglect of truth becomes a truth in itself (as far as society is concerned - whether it's a 'truth' for real or not, is another story..).

christianj · #8 27th-July-2008

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...-112526-4029r/

Marx · #9 27th-July-2008

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When minor and major acts of violence were tallied, female-to-male violence accounted for 18.2 percent of overall violence and 7.5 percent of severe violence. Male-to-female violence accounted for 13.7 percent of overall violence and 8.6 percent of severe violence.

So... only 1.1% difference, eh? Not quite the 95% that feminists like to pretend..