| NOTE: Based on data from 51 states. States that report aggregate-only data are not included in this analysis. The count of child victims is based on the number of investigations and assessments by Child Protective Services that found the child to be a victim of one or more types of maltreatment. The count of victims is, therefore, a report-based count and is a "duplicated count," because an individual child may have been maltreated more than once. Substantiated maltreatment includes the dispositions of substantiated, indicated, or alternative response victim. States vary in their definition of abuse and neglect. Rows total more than 100 percent because a single child may be the victim of multiple kinds of maltreatment. The category of unknown includes missing data and children older than 17 years. |
