TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1980//
TI  - Race, ethnicity, and child maltreatment: An empirical analysis
JO  - Child abuse and neglect
A1  - Lauderdale, M.
A1  - Valiunas, A
A1  - Anderson, R.
SP  - 163
EP  - 169
VL  - 4
IS  - 3
N2  - Using central registry data for Texas for 1975-1977 of validated cases of abuse and of neglect, a study was conducted to investigate empirically the relationship of child maltreatment to ethnicity, addressing methodological issues that merit consideration in such studies.The ethnic composition of the at-risk population was 61% Anglos, 15% Blacks, and 24% Mexican-Americans. The annual rates for all abuse and neglect were 2.87, 3.17, and 3.94 per 1,000 under 18 population for Anglos, Mexican-Americans, and Blacks, respectively. Abuse was more predominant among Anglos, accounting for 33.5% of the validated cases of maltreatment, than among Mexican-Americans and Blacks, accounting for 25.2% and 29.4% of the maltreatment, respectively. Neglect was the major dynamic of maltreatment for Mexican-Americans and Blacks, accounting for 65.6% and 61.2% of the maltreatment, respectively, with Anglos having 55.4% of the maltreatment due to neglect. These relationships were not altered when rural-urban differences were taken into consideration.<p />
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SN  - 0145-2134
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -