![]() So in terms of parents acting alone, fathers kill MORE children than mothers. ![]() ![]() For fathers, who by themselves neglected 661,129 children, they killed 0.13% (859). That represents only 0.12% of the1,452,099 children who are neglected by their mother alone. I haven’t analysed those figures when a parent ‘acted’ with another because no explanation is given of what that means or what degree of culpability was afforded the parent as opposed to the ‘other’.ġ,704 were killed by a mother acting alone. In the UK in 2014 for example 91% of lone parents were women.īut probably a more interesting percentage that can be gleaned from these figures is that children killed by parents acting alone. Is part of the reason that more children are killed by mothers because more women than men are primary carers of children? The vast majority of lone parents are mothers. What I don’t know because the table doesn’t make it clear, is how many of these mothers and fathers were living together at the time the child died. Percent of cases involving one parent acting either alone or in concert with someone other than the child’s other parent Mother total (alone or with someone other than the father)įather total (alone or with someone other than the mother)īoth total (Involving one parent acting alone or in concert with someone not the child’s other parent) Victims by Parental Status of Perpetrators of Health and Human Services “Child Maltreatment” reports, 2001-2006 * These appear to be credible and are taken from the US Department of Health and Human Services. ![]() She relied upon statistics provided by Mark Rosenthal’s ‘Breaking the Science’ I recently had a bit of a heated debate with a anonymous tweeter ‘Preserved by Faith’ who was very sure that 71% of children killed by a family member are killed by their mother. ![]()
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