Homicide is the fifth highest cause of death among children. Of the 1,400 children that died of abuse or neglect in 2000,

a. 86% of the victims were under the age of four.
b. an estimated 20% of deaths of children resulting from abuse or neglect may not be reported as murder.
c. the majority of child homicides were committed by strangers, not parents.
d. mothers were the perpetrators twice as often as fathers.


a

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