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Re: Male vs Female Abuse towards children
In both the NIS and NCANDS data, the cases were those that had been
substantiated.
Becky Bolen
At 06:18 PM 12/5/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Did the NIS data involve allegations or substantiations? The rate of
>substantiations is often much less than that of allegations. In addition,
>the retrospective data, while suspect in itself due to selective memory and
>reporting, would report only situations that could have been substantiated.
>
>Patricia Sherman
>Department of Social Work
>Kean University
>Union, NJ
>_________________________________________
>What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
> Author Unknown
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Becky Bolen" <bbolen@bu.edu>
>To: "Child Maltreatment Researchers"
><CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu>
>Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 4:18 PM
>Subject: RE: Male vs Female Abuse towards children
>
>
> > Actually, I just looked at this data for child sexual abuse. I used those
> > random community, state, or national prevalence studies that categorized
> > child sexual abuse by both relation and gender of the offender. I
>compared
> > their aggregated information to the NCANDS done in 1998. Here is an
>excerpt
> > that addresses this:
> >
> > The third NIS conducted in 1993 found that 87% of abuse committed by
> > parents involved a male and 28% involved a female (Sedlak & Broadhurst,
> > 1996). This finding implies that 13% of all abuse was perpetrated solely
>by
> > mothers and that another 15% of all abuse involved both a mother and
> > father. In the most recent national incident study done through the NCANDS
> > in 1998, 51% of child sexual abuse cases identified by child protective
> > services were committed by parents (U.S. Department of Health and Human
> > Services, 2000c). In more than half of these cases, mothers were charged
>as
> > the sole offender (4% of all abuse) or as co-offenders (23% of all abuse).
> > Yet in her random community prevalence study of 930 women, Russell (1983)
> > found that only one respondent was abused by her mother, whereas 44
> > respondents were abused by their fathers. Thus, only 2% of all parental
> > abuse was committed by mothers (or 0.2% of all abuse). Further, no mothers
> > were reported as offenders in Wyatt's (1985) or Saunders et al.'s (1999)
> > studies or the Los Angeles Times Poll survey (Finkelhor, Hotaling, Lewis,
>&
> > Smith, 1990). Of the 7812 respondents across these combined studies, 1971
> > incidents of abuse were reported. Of these, 163 were cases of paternal
> > abuse and one was a case of maternal abuse. Thus, the prevalence of
> > maternal abuse for the combined samples was 0.01%. Further, mothers
> > accounted for only 0.6% of all parental abuse and 0.05% of all abuse.
>Given
> > the random nature of these retrospective studies and their community- or
> > nation-wide focus, it is difficult to believe that the much larger
> > percentage of abusive mothers in the NIS-3 (28%) and the NCANDS (27%) does
> > not imply some type of bias.
> >
> > This excerpt is taken from: Bolen, R. M. (in press). Child sexual abuse:
> > Its scope and our failure. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
> >
> > Becky Bolen
> >
> >
> > At 12:59 PM 12/5/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> > >I'd also caution that you keep in mind the following potential caveat
>with
> > >any analysis of administrative data on the subject: Is there any bias in
>the
> > >reporting of child maltreatment that would skew perceptions of the
>identity
> > >of perpetrators? In other words, are women more likely than men to be
> > >reported even though the incidence of female vs. male perpetration may be
> > >closer to equal? Further, to what extent do perceptions of gender roles
> > >influence one's reporting of child maltreatment? I'm not sure of the
>answers
> > >to the above, but perhaps another member of the listserv could address
>that.
> > >
> > >Dana Hollinshead, M.P.A., M.A.
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: lfontes@mail.javanet.com [mailto:lfontes@mail.javanet.com]
> > >Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 12:36 PM
> > >To: Child Maltreatment Researchers
> > >Subject: Re: Male vs Female Abuse towards children
> > >
> > >
> > >In this discussion of male versus female abuse of children, Let's not
>forget
> > >sexual abuse, inducing terror (through abusing the other parent) and
>child
> > >abandonment (having no or only sporadic contact with a child might be
> > >considered a form of indirect neglect)
> > >Lisa fontes, Ph.D.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >Original Message:
> > >-----------------
> > >From: Joseph A Vorrasi jav9@cornell.edu
> > >Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 13:03:07 -0500
> > >Subject: Re: Male vs Female Abuse towards children
> > >
> > >
> > >Jeannine,
> > >
> > >
> > >National surveys indicate that, relative to fathers, mothers use more
> > >physical aggression against children. This trend can be partially
> > >explained by the simple fact that, on average, mothers have a greater
> > >*opportunity* to abuse their children, given the propensity for children
> > >to spend more time with their mothers than with their fathers. The
> > >statistics you seek, along with a discussion of them, can be found in the
> > >following book:
> > >
> > >
> > >Straus, M. A., & Gelles, R. J. (Eds.). (1990). <underline>Physical
> > >violence in American families: Risk factors and adaptations to violence
> > >in 8,145 families</underline>. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction.
> > >
> > >
> > >Good luck,
> > >
> > >
> > >Joe Vorrasi
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >At 11:23 AM 12/5/00 -0500, jeannine turchiano wrote:
> > >
> > > >In all of the research I have been doing I cannot find any statistics
>on
> > >who does more of the child abusing in the US is it women or men?? Do you
> > >have any stats of perhaps you can direct me to a website that would have
> > >this information.
> > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > >Thank you very much- Jeannine
> > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > Becky Bolen, Ph.D.
> > School of Social Work
> > 264 Bay State Road
> > Boston University
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> > bbolen@bu.edu
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> >
> >
Becky Bolen, Ph.D.
School of Social Work
264 Bay State Road
Boston University
Boston, MA 02215
bbolen@bu.edu
617-353-3925