The DOI matches its Crossref record; 16 of the 16 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
The economic burden of child maltreatment in the United States, 2015
Open accessAbstract
Child maltreatment incurs a high lifetime cost per victim and creates a substantial US population economic burden. This study aimed to use the most recent data and recommended methods to update previous (2008) estimates of 1) the per-victim lifetime cost, and 2) the annual US population economic burden of child maltreatment. Three ways to update the previous estimates were identified: 1) apply value per statistical life methodology to value child maltreatment mortality, 2) apply monetized quality-adjusted life years methodology to value child maltreatment morbidity, and 3) apply updated estimates of the exposed population. As with the previous estimates, the updated estimates used the societal cost perspective and lifetime horizon, but also accounted for victim and community intangible costs. Updated methods increased the estimated nonfatal child maltreatment per-victim lifetime cost from $210,012 (2010 USD) to $830,928 (2015 USD) and increased the fatal per-victim cost from $1.3 to $16.6 million. The estimated US population economic burden of child maltreatment based on 2015 substantiated incident cases (482,000 nonfatal and 1670 fatal victims) was $428 billion, representing lifetime costs incurred annually. Using estimated incidence of investigated annual incident cases (2,368,000 nonfatal and 1670 fatal victims), the estimated economic burden was $2 trillion. Accounting for victim and community intangible costs increased the estimated cost of child maltreatment considerably compared to previous estimates. The economic burden of child maltreatment is substantial and might off-set the cost of evidence-based interventions that reduce child maltreatment incidence.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Sanders, G. D., Neumann, P. J., Basu, A., Brock, D. W., Feeny, D., Krahn, M., Kuntz, K. M., Meltzer, D. O., Owens, D. K., Prosser, L. A., et al. (2016) · JAMA · doi:10.1001/jama.2016.12195 · Cited by 3,069
Finkelhor, D., Turner, H. A., Shattuck, A., & Hamby, S. L. (2015) · JAMA Pediatrics · doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2015.0676 · Cited by 1,264
The economic burden of child maltreatment in the United States and implications for prevention
Fang, X., Brown, D. S., Florence, C. S., & Mercy, J. A. (2012) · Child Abuse & Neglect · doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2011.10.006 · Cited by 1,122 · cited 7×
“We followed the previous study’s method for estimating the proportion of investigated cases that represented first-time (or, incident) child maltreatment; that is, we multiplied the proportion of incident substantiated cases among total substantiated cases—both directly reported in administrative sources—by the total…”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialSelf-citationDefining maltreatment according to substantiation: distinction without a difference?
Hussey, J. M., Marshall, J. M., English, D. J., Knight, E. D., Lau, A. S., Dubowitz, H., & Kotch, J. B. (2005) · Child Abuse & Neglect · doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2003.12.005 · Cited by 441
Time to Leave Substantiation Behind: Findings From A National Probability Study
Kohl, P. L., Jonson-Reid, M., & Drake, B. (2009) · Child Maltreatment · doi:10.1177/1077559508326030 · Cited by 383
Health-Related Quality of Life Among Adults Who Experienced Maltreatment During Childhood
Corso, P. S., Edwards, V. J., Fang, X., & Mercy, J. A. (2008) · American Journal of Public Health · doi:10.2105/ajph.2007.119826 · Cited by 370
CORSO, P., MERCY, J., SIMON, T., FINKELSTEIN, E., & MILLER, T. (2007) · American Journal of Preventive Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2007.02.010 · Cited by 359
Age 21 Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Title I Chicago Child-Parent Centers
Reynolds, A. J., Temple, J. A., Robertson, D. L., & Mann, E. A. (2002) · Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis · doi:10.3102/01623737024004267 · Cited by 348
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (U.S.). Division of Violence Prevention., Fortson, B. L., Klevens, J., Merrick, M. T., Gilbert, L. K., & Alexander, S. P. (2016) · doi:10.15620/cdc.38864 · Cited by 334
Self-citationUnited States Life Tables, 2020
(2022) · doi:10.15620/cdc:118055 · Cited by 246
Cited by
Bellis, M. A., Hughes, K., Ford, K., Ramos Rodriguez, G., Sethi, D., & Passmore, J. (2019) · The Lancet Public Health · doi:10.1016/s2468-2667(19)30145-8 · Cited by 1,032
Herrenkohl, T. I., Fedina, L., Roberto, K. A., Raquet, K. L., Hu, R. X., Rousson, A. N., & Mason, W. A. (2022) · Trauma, Violence, & Abuse · doi:10.1177/1524838020939119 · Cited by 119
Examining the Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and ADHD Diagnosis and Severity
Crouch, E., Radcliff, E., Bennett, K. J., Brown, M. J., & Hung, P. (2021) · Academic Pediatrics · doi:10.1016/j.acap.2021.03.009 · Cited by 50
Average medical cost of fatal and non-fatal injuries by type in the USA.
Peterson, C., Xu, L., & Florence, C. (2021) · Injury Prevention · doi:10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043544 · Cited by 36
Self-citationState-level education policies: Opportunities for secondary prevention of child maltreatment
Rochford, H. I., Zeiger, K. D., & Peek-Asa, C. (2023) · Child Abuse & Neglect · doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2022.106018 · Cited by 14
Metadata
- Authors
- Peterson, C., Florence, C., & Klevens, J.
- Venue
- Child Abuse & Neglect
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-12
- Volume
- 86
- Pages
- 178-183
- ISSN
- 0145-2134 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2895871417
- Cited by
- 373
- References
- 16
- FWCI
- 39.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: The economic burden of child maltreatment in the United States, 2015. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1016/j.chiabu.2018.09.018
- The paper
- Peterson, C., Florence, C., & Klevens, J. (2018). The economic burden of child maltreatment in the United States, 2015. Child Abuse & Neglect. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2018.09.018
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
