Collateral Damage on the Home Front
July 2012
In 2002, Action for Children North Carolina studied the incidence of homicide of a young child by a parent or caregiver in North Carolina. The findings of that report indicated child abuse homicide rates in Cumberland and Onslow counties, home of the largest military installations in the state, were twice the state average. Additional analysis found children in active duty military families in Cumberland and Onslow faced higher risk of child abuse homicide than their peers. Collateral Damage on the Home Front: Ten Years Later, performs a ten-year update of that earlier report.
