Types and frequency of child maltreatment by family foster care providers in an urban population☆
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2021, Child Abuse and NeglectCitation Excerpt :Others have found rates of physical abuse as high as 25% among children in foster care (Euser et al., 2014). While neglect is the most common type of maltreatment recurrence among maltreated children, physical abuse is the most commonly reported type of maltreatment recurrence in foster care (Benedict et al., 1994, 1996; Spencer & Knudsen, 1992). In addition, reports of sexual abuse are twice as likely to occur in foster care than in a child’s own home (Spencer & Knudsen, 1992).
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This study was supported by The National Center of Child Abuse and Neglect, ACYF, ACF, DHHS, Grant #90-CA-1367.