Child Maltreatment - Facts at a Glance

Child Maltreatment - by the CDC Violence Prevention

In 2007, U.S. state and local child protective services(CPS) investigated 3.2 million reports of children being abused or neglected.

1 • CPS classified 794,000 (10.6 per 1,000) of these children as victims. Approximately three quarters of them had no history of prior victimization.

Fifty-nine percent of the children were classified as victims of child neglect;

4 percent as victims of emotional abuse;

8 percent as victims of sexual abuse;

11 percent as victims of physical abuse.•

A non-CPS study reported that 14 percent of U.S. children experienced some form of child maltreatment:

8 percent were victims of sexual abuse;

22 percent were victims of child neglect;

48 percent were victims of physical abuse; and

75 percent were victims of emotional abuse.

2 Note: A child is counted each time she or he is a subject of a report, which means a child may be counted more than once as a victim of child maltreatment.

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