Sobsey D, Randall W, Parrila R K
J.P. Das Developmental Disabilities Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Child Abuse Negl. 1997 Aug;21(8):707-20. doi: 10.1016/s0145-2134(97)00033-1.
Two questions were posed: (1) What are the proportions of boys and girls in various categories of substantiated child abuse? (2) Do the gender proportions differ for children with and without disabilities?
Data collected by previous researchers from a demographically representative sample of U.S. child abuse reporting districts was analyzed. This included 1,249 case files involving 1,834 children. The number of girls and boys who did and did not have disabilities was identified for three age categories and for several categories of abuse. Chi-square analyses were used to determine whether there was a relationship between disability and gender for the various age and abuse categories.
More boys were physically abused and neglected, but more girls were sexually abused. Boys with disabilities, however, were over-represented in all categories of abuse. Moreover, gender proportions among abused children with disabilities differed significantly from those found among other abused children. Although slightly more than half of abused children without disabilities were girls, 65% of abused children with disabilities were boys.
Boys represented a significantly larger proportion of physically abused, sexually abused, and neglected children with disabilities than would be expected from their respective proportion of abused and neglected children without disabilities. Several possible explanations for the observed gender and disability status interaction are discussed.
提出了两个问题：（1）在各类已证实的儿童虐待案件中，男孩和女孩的比例分别是多少？（2）残疾儿童和非残疾儿童的性别比例是否存在差异？
对先前研究人员从具有人口统计学代表性的美国儿童虐待报告地区样本中收集的数据进行了分析。这包括1249份涉及1834名儿童的案件档案。针对三个年龄类别和几类虐待情况，确定了有残疾和无残疾的女孩和男孩的数量。采用卡方分析来确定在不同年龄和虐待类别中，残疾与性别之间是否存在关联。
遭受身体虐待和忽视的男孩更多，但遭受性虐待的女孩更多。然而，残疾男孩在各类虐待案件中所占比例过高。此外，残疾受虐儿童的性别比例与其他受虐儿童的性别比例存在显著差异。虽然在无残疾的受虐儿童中，略超过一半是女孩，但在有残疾的受虐儿童中，65%是男孩。
在遭受身体虐待、性虐待和忽视的残疾儿童中，男孩所占比例显著高于根据其在无残疾受虐和被忽视儿童中各自所占比例所预期的比例。讨论了观察到的性别与残疾状况相互作用的几种可能解释。
