Doug Jones wrote,
>Can you clarify what form of child abuse these stats relate to, physical or
>sexual? I suspect that there is a large gender difference in the
>perpetrators, with the majority of child sexual abuse being at the hands of
>males.
These stats refer to all abuse. Of course, identical forms of abuse may get
recorded as "sexual" abuse when a man does it, and "physical" abuse when a
female does it. Furthermore, the general public tends to perceive abuse by men
as more serious than identical abuse by females, which may partly explain why
females comprise only 3% of those in prison for this crime, despite the fact
that females commit twice as much child abuse as do men.
--J. R. Molloy
http://www.ncncfm.8m.com
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