U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Children’s Bureau.2020-01-282020-01-282020U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Children’s Bureau. (2020). Child Maltreatment 2018. Washington, DC: Author.https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/cb/cm2018.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/4564Child Maltreatment 2018 is the 29th edition of the annual Child Maltreatment report series. States provide the data for this report through the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS). NCANDS was established in 1988 as a voluntary, national data collection and analysis program to make available state child abuse and neglect information. Data have been collected every year since 1991 and are collected from child welfare agencies in the 50 states, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia.en-USchild maltreatmentUnited StatesstatisticsdataDataset