Report on Child Abuse and Neglect and Domestic Abuse in the Military for Fiscal Year 2016
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2017
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US Department of Defense
Abstract
For 36 years, the Department of Defense (DoD) Family Advocacy Program (FAP) has worked to
prevent and respond to child abuse and neglect and domestic abuse in military families. This
report provides the child abuse and domestic abuse incident data from the DoD FAP Central
Registry for Fiscal Year (FY) 2016, as required by section 574 of the National Defense
Authorization Act (NDAA) for FY 2017. In addition to meeting the congressional requirement,
this report also provides critical aggregate information on the demographics of these incidents
that will further inform ongoing prevention and response service efforts. Using aggregated FAP
Central Registry data submitted from each Military Service (Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air
Force), this report offers a Department-wide picture of the child abuse and neglect (hereafter
referred to together as child maltreatment) and domestic abuse incidents that were reported to
FAP in FY 2016.
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child abuse, military, statistics
Citation
US Department of Defense (2017). Report on Child Abuse and Neglect and Domestic Abuse in the Military for Fiscal Year 2016. Washington, DC: Author.