How Many Children are Maltreated? - Incidence And Prevalence Of Child Maltreatment, Collecting Child Maltreatment Data, Cps Maltreatment Reports, Victims Of Maltreatment

Statistics on child abuse are difficult to interpret and compare because there is very little consistency in how information is collected. The definitions of abuse vary from study to study, as do the methods of counting incidents of abuse. Some methods count only reported cases of abuse. Some statistics are based on estimates projected from a small study, while others are based on interviews. In addition, it is virtually impossible to know the extent of child maltreatment that occurs in the privacy of the home.