I should try mincava in U of minnesota or Safer Society Foundation, Vt. I believe the common figure tends to ba about 1/3 girls and 1/8 boys. Thereabouts anyway, but i have seen figures quoted. From another source, an inservice, : "The most extensive study of child abuse in Canada was conducted by the Committee on Sexual Offences against Children and Youths. Its report indicates that, among adult Canadians, 53% of women and 31% of men were sexually abused when they were children." Health and Welfare Canada www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/familyviolence/html/csaeng.html Hope some of this helps dermot m Karen Wade wrote: > I'm helping a children's services agency executive director to develop > an overview of the child maltreatment field for his board of > directors' strategic planning purposes. He wants to communicate as > simply and understandably as possible the scope of the problem in the > U.S. He doesn't believe the national incidence and prevalence > statistics will communicate the message he's wanting to convey--the > pervasiveness of a problem that touches many people. He's looking for > something very concrete (tough in our work) along the lines of "it is > estimated that 1 in XX people has experienced some form of child > maltreatment by the age of 18" > > Has anyone done this type of national survey where all forms of child > maltreatment (including neglect) are collapsed and boiled down to this > type of estimate? Or, does anyone know of any secondary analyses of > data that has come up with this type of "neat" finding? > > Thanks very much. > > Karen > > Karen Beck Wade, Ph.D., Director > ChildStrength Research Project > WestEd > 4665 Lampson Ave. > Los Alamitos, CA 90720 > tel (562) 799-5139 > fax (562) 799-5151 > kwade@xxxxxxxxxx -- dermot monaghan PO Box 1131 22B Rupert Street Amherst, Nova Scotia B4H 4L2 monaghan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 902 667 3336 (w) 902 661 1622 (h)
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