RE: Underreporting of maltreatment

["Dan Taube" <dtaube@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Perhaps among the more disturbing of recent articles (a two state survey);

PEDIATRICS Vol. 115 No. 3 March 2005, pp. e331-e337 (doi:10.1542/peds.2004-1033) Epidemiologic Features of the Physical and Sexual Maltreatment of Children in the Carolinas Adrea D. Theodore, MD, MPH*, Jen Jen Chang, MPH, Desmond K. Runyan, MD, DrPH*,,||, Wanda M. Hunter, MPH,||, Shrikant I. Bangdiwala, PhD||,¶ and Robert Agans, PhD¶

Web address: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/115/3/e331

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To: Child Maltreatment Researchers
Subject: Underreporting of maltreatment

Does anyone know of statistics/estimates (or ongoing research) on the amount
of underreporting of child maltreatment that occurs in the US?  I have found
one reference by Sedlak but was hoping to find more.

Thanks,
Danielle

E Danielle Rentz, MPH
Doctoral Candidate
Dept of Epidemiology
UNC School of Public Health