A majority of child abuse is actually committed by women, and especially by mothers. This is even more true when you include emotional abuse and neglect instead of just physical abuse.
By some metrics, the biological father is the safest person for a child to be with. This is because when men do abuse children, it often happens while under the custody of the mother. Who is sometimes complicit in the abuse or even encourages it.
Close to half of child abductors and traffickers are also women, not men. And many of their victims are boys. Boys face sexual abuse and are also used for forced labor and organ harvesting. They are less likely to survive or escape, are less likely to be reported on or identified, and they suffer from higher rates of abuse than girls who are trafficked.
And yet very little attention is given to this. Missing boys, and especially missing minority boys, are often ignored by society and the media. To the point that people often assume that most of the victims are girls. Something which is known as the [missing white woman syndrome](https://archive.is/mRIJL) (although in Canada there is a lot of attention given to missing indigenous women, even though 71% of missing indigenous people are men and boys).
Note that I'm not saying these things to attack women, imply that they shouldn't receive custody, or to downplay the plight of girls. Which is a lot more than you can say about people who try to paint men as the villains in this picture. We should however be fair about what the facts are, and give male victimization, including victimization by women, the attention that it deserves.
[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16165212](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16165212)
[https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevent.../pdf/childmaltreatment-facts-at-a-glance.pdf)
typic[http://www.breakingthescience.org/S...ingthescience.org/SimplifiedDataFromDHHS.php)
[https://www.sciencedirect.com/scien...om/science/article/abs/pii/S0145213416302599)
[https://www.savethechildren.org/us/...ity-stories/child-trafficking-myths-vs-facts)
By some metrics, the biological father is the safest person for a child to be with. This is because when men do abuse children, it often happens while under the custody of the mother. Who is sometimes complicit in the abuse or even encourages it.
Close to half of child abductors and traffickers are also women, not men. And many of their victims are boys. Boys face sexual abuse and are also used for forced labor and organ harvesting. They are less likely to survive or escape, are less likely to be reported on or identified, and they suffer from higher rates of abuse than girls who are trafficked.
And yet very little attention is given to this. Missing boys, and especially missing minority boys, are often ignored by society and the media. To the point that people often assume that most of the victims are girls. Something which is known as the [missing white woman syndrome](https://archive.is/mRIJL) (although in Canada there is a lot of attention given to missing indigenous women, even though 71% of missing indigenous people are men and boys).
Note that I'm not saying these things to attack women, imply that they shouldn't receive custody, or to downplay the plight of girls. Which is a lot more than you can say about people who try to paint men as the villains in this picture. We should however be fair about what the facts are, and give male victimization, including victimization by women, the attention that it deserves.
[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16165212](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16165212)
[https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevent.../pdf/childmaltreatment-facts-at-a-glance.pdf)
typic[http://www.breakingthescience.org/S...ingthescience.org/SimplifiedDataFromDHHS.php)
[https://www.sciencedirect.com/scien...om/science/article/abs/pii/S0145213416302599)
[https://www.savethechildren.org/us/...ity-stories/child-trafficking-myths-vs-facts)
