"homicide" does not in any way, shape, or form, indicate that the death was caused by the parent.
http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/187239.pdf
This presentation will focus on data obtained from the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) that was used to illuminate the circumstances related to homicide among children aged 4 years or less, and to identify demographic groups which may be at increased risk. Standard statistical tests were conducted to determine homicide rates among children aged 4 years or less, and to investigate infant/child homicide rates by race, gender, and other relevant circumstances. We fit a Poisson regression model to the sample data to investigate the multivariate relationship between infant/child homicide and available demographic information. Our findings indicate that Whites were 0.29 times as likely to be victims as African Americans, and females were 0.86 times as likely as males.
Perpetrators were commonly parents / caregivers.
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/162/9/1578
Among children under age 5 years in the United States who were murdered in the last quarter of the 20th century,
61% were killed by their own parents: 30% were killed by their mothers, and 31% by their fathers (1). Estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 1994 indicated that homicide was the fourth leading cause of death for preschool children and the third leading cause of death among children from ages 5–14 years (2). In the United States, the incidence of homicide of children less than 1 year old has increased over the past quarter-century (1). Compared to other developed nations, the United States has the highest rate of child homicide: 8.0/100,000 for infants, 2.5/100,000 for preschool-age children (age 1–4 years), and 1.5/100,000 for school-age children (age 5–14 years) (3). In contrast, Canada’s reported rate for homicide of infants was less than half that of the United States: 2.9/100,000 (3). Furthermore, multiple authors have suggested that rates of child murder by parents are underestimated in epidemiological studies of child death (4–6).
And just so we can't think things change dramatically from year to year:
http://news.discovery.com/human/group-blasts-media-blackout-on-child-abuse.html
Analysis by Benjamin Radford
Tue Dec 14, 2010 02:06 PM ET
A new analysis from the National Coalition to End Child Abuse Deaths (NCECAD) shows how the American news media turns a blind eye to child abuse deaths while lavishing extensive coverage on deaths that occur less often.
Journalists rarely cover child abuse cases unless they involve abduction and murder by sex offenders. While those rare (but sensational) cases make headlines, they are not the real problem.
Who is murdering America's children?
Abusive and neglectful mothers, mostly, and fathers. Some are killed in accidents, and a relatively rare few by strangers.
According to a 2003 report by the Department of Human Services, hundreds of thousands of children are abused and neglected each year by
their parents and caregivers, and over 1,500 American children died from that abuse in 2003 -- most of the victims under four years old.
That is more than four children murdered per day -- not by convicted sex offenders or Internet predators, but by those entrusted to care for them.
BTW,
DVCBELLE, Thank you for the cite. I knew of the Wikipedia article but a common tactic of anyone being presented with a Wikipedia source is to discredit it simply because it is from Wikipedia. I'd do it myself in a lot of cases, especially anything politically controversial, because anyone can edit many of the articles and some, like Global Warming, are controlled by
people with an obvious bias and objections are not allowed. It's a reliable source in this case but I looked for ones that couldn't be brushed off with an excuse.
good try though
