Fact:

• 16% of children experienced serious maltreatment by parents, of whom one third experienced more than one type of maltreatment*

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*Cawson, 2002, Child Maltreatment in the Family: The Experience of a National Sample of Young People, NSPCC

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Written by Colin Brooks on 28.07.07 at 7:02 pm.