I've read that according to stats women abuse children more than men. Is this true?

Question

According to what I read this happens often and leads to promiscuious behavior and problems later in life.. Why are men blamed for this?

Answer 1

40- 60% of men who abuse women also abuse their children.
(American Psychology Association. Violence and the Family: Report of the American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force on Violence and the Family. 1996)

63% of all males between the ages 11 and 20 who are serving time for homicide in the U.S. are incarcerated because the killed their mothers’ abusers.
(Sarah M. Buel, “The dynamics of Domestic Violence Cases in the United States of America: An overview” in Defending Battered Women in Criminal Cases, American Bar Association, Section of Criminal Justice, 1992)

3 million American children are exposed to domestic violence in their homes each year.
(American Psychology Association, Violence in the Family: Report of the American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force on Violence in the Family, 1996)

About 45% of the female intimate violence victims in 1998 lived in households with children younger than twelve years old.
(Rennison, C.M., and S. Welchans. May 2000. Intimate Partner Violence. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics)

When Women are murdered by their husbands, children are present in 25% of the cases.
(Crawford & Gardner, 1992)

The maltreatment of children and violence against women often of hand in hand. As many of the half a million children may be encountered by police during domestic violence arrests. There is an overlap of 30 to 60 percent between violence against children and violence against women in the same families.
(Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. (November 2000). Safe from the start: taking action on children exposed to violence. (Publication No. NCJ182789) Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Available: phone: [phone] or www.njrs.org/puborder)

Children exposed to wife abuse suffer low self esteem, depression, poor heath, sleep difficulties, post traumatic stress disorder, poor impulse control, and are at higher rist for problems in school, drug and alcohol abuse, sexual acting out, running away, isolation, loneliness, fear and suicide.
(Peter Jaffe, Davis Wolfe & Susan Kaye Wilson, Children of Battered Women, Sage Publication, 1990)

Girls whose father batter their mothers are 6.5 times more likely to be sexually abused by their fathers than are girls from non-violent homes.
(Bowker, L.H., Arbitell, M.,& Mcferron, J.R., “On the Relationship Between Wife Beating and Child Abuse.” In K. Yllo & M. Bograd, Feminist Perspectives on Wife Abuse, Sage, 1988)

Children who witness domestic violence were found to show more anxiety, depression, traumatic symptoms, and temperamental problems than other children.
( Schecter and Edleson, Domestic Violence and Children, Open Society Institute, Center on Crime, Communities, and culture, 2000)

Research shows that between 3.3 million and 10 million children in the United States are exposed to domestic violence each year.
(The David and Lucille Packard Foundation, The Future of Children, 1999)

Between 45 to 70% of children exposed to domestic violence are also victims of physical abuse.
( P.K. Trickett and C.J. Shellenback, The American Psychological Association, pp57-404, 1998)

2,000 children die each year by violent means, and 140,000 more are seriously injured.
(U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect; information obtained from a 2.5 year study and released on email computer communication April 25, 1995)

More than 50% of child abductions result from domestic violence.
(Geoffrey Grief & Rebecca Hagar, “Abduction of Children by Their Parents: A Survey of the Problem,” Social Work, 1991)

Some of our country’s “missing children” are actually being hidden by their mothers to protect them from violent fathers. Conversely, abusers sometimes kidnap their children to punish their partners for leaving them or to get them to come back.
(Domectic Violence – A guide for Health Care Professionals, NJ: March 1990)

Older Children may be hurt while trying to protect their mother.
(Domestic Violence – A Guide For Health Care Professionals, State of New Jersey, Department of Community Affairs, March, 1990)

Children from violent homes have higher risks of alcohol/drug abuse and juvenile delinquency.
(Domestic Violence – A Guide For Health Care Professionals, Stats of New Jersey, Department of Community Affairs, March, 1990)

Children from violent families can provide clinicians with detailed accounts of abusive incidents their parents never realized they witnessed.
(Jaffee, P.G., D.A., Wolfe, and S.K. Wilson (1990). Children of Battered Women, Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications)

Abusive husbands are seven times more likely than non-abusive husbands to abuse their children. Battered women are twice as likely as non-battered women to abuse their children, although once out of the relationship, the odds of them abusing their children are reduced.
(Ending the Cycle of Ciolence- Community Responses to Children of Battered Women, Einat Peled, Peter Jaffe, Jeffrey Edleson)

A comparison of delinquent and non-delinquent youth found that a history of family violence of abuse was the most significant difference between the two groups.
(Miller, G. (1989). “Violence By and Against America’s Children,” Journal of Juvenile Justice Digest, XVII (12), p.6)

Domestic abuse is the single greatest risk factor in child abuse.
(National women Abuse Prevention Protection)

Domestic violence is a major factor that contributes to the problem of teenage runaways and homeless street youth.
(National Women Abuse Prevention Project)

Almost half of all battered women were sexually abused as children by male relatives.
(Zorza, J. 1991. Women Battering: A major Cause of Homelessness. Clearinghouse Review, 24, 421-424. In J.A. Drye (1998/1999). The silent Victims of Domestic Violence: Children Forgotten by the Judicial System. Gonzaga Law Review, 34, (2), 230)

Men who witness their father’s abuse their mothers were three times more likely to abuse their wives than men who had not.
(Davidson, R. The Impact of Domestic Violence on Children: A report to the President of the American Bar Association, August 1994)

Boys who witnessed domestic abuse were significantly more likely to approve of violence than girls who had also witnessed it.
(Carlson, B.E. 1990. Adolescent Observers of Martial Violence. Journal of Family Violence,5, 285-299)

Answer 2

As a former child protection social worker, I will tell you that you are misinformed. Being that poverty is highly correlated with neglect and that single mothers are disproportionately impoverished for a variety of reasons that we won't get into here, women are over represented in cases of neglect. If non involvement of a parent were taken into consideration, the fathers of the children of single mothers would also be guilty of neglect as well. Now before you anti-fems get your panties in a twist, I would also argue that men are over represented in the number of perpetrators in sexual abuse cases. This is because society still hasn't come to the realization that an adolescent male can be sexually abused by a female. I have had many of these files where no charges are laid due to the "victim" being a male and apparently, a male can't be a "victim" (not my thinking but societies). If the same situation were an adolescent female and an adult male, there would undoubtedly be criminal charges. I will also tell you that men and women are perpetrators of abuse against children equally in my professional experience. What needs to change is society's definition of what actually constitutes abuse (yes women can be sexual perpetrators) and men can also be neglectful of their children particularly if their children are living in poverty and they are doing nothing to resolve the issue.

Answer 3

I think that might be true when you look at the type of abuse. I think men are more likely to physically and sexually abuse children then women. However, woman are more likely to verbally abuse their children then men, and they do physically abuse them. I guess men are usually blamed for it because they are usually seen as the more agressive person in the relationship. For example they give out the punishments and usually spank the children more often then the mother does.

Answer 4

Neither men or women are exempt from abusing children. I've heard of women doing some way out there stuff, putting their babies into the oven to burn the devil out of them, driving the car with their babies into the lake, etc. It can happen from other side. There is definitely a maternal instinct in most women though that, even when the baby keeps crying and won't stop, etc prevents them from harming the child.

Answer 5

I believe those stats are true.Every time i hear a murder story it' always some stupid witch who drowned her kids or killed them i just want to kick their butts.I'm not saying what i truly want to do but you get the jist right.And as for the abuse part.IF SOMEONE HEARS OR SEES A CHILD GETTING ABUSED REPORT IT...you may be saving a child's life.As for the men getting blamed there are more men who hurt and kill children and women statisically especially reported in the news.

Answer 6

Where did you read this? Sorry - but I know quite a few people who were abused when they were children and every one of the abusers has been a man. I take it you're talking about sex abuse, as you mention promiscous behaviour.

Answer 7

women abuse children more because fathers are no where close to the children to abuse them...This is no joke...most abuses occur when mother is a single mother...

Answer 8

i aggree w/frosty

Answer 9

'Stats about right.

Answer 10

wrong