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Risk factors for child maltreatment are not as prevalent in military families as in nonmilitary families. For example, military families receive healthcare and partially funded housing, have at least one salaried parent, and are subject to social and vocational pressures against severe drug or alcohol problems. To learn more, investigators examined child maltreatment rates in military and nonmilitary families in Texas by using a large national database derived from reports made by state child protective service agencies from January 2000 through June 2003. This time span started before the September 11 terror attacks and continued as military deployments increased to Afghanistan and, later, Iraq.
Before the attacks, rates of substantiated ch…