Although other fields have employed synthetic cohort life tables to document the cumulative risk of experiencing an event, no such attempts have been made using official child maltreatment data.23 Therefore, the purpose of this study was to use synthetic life tables to determine the percentage of U.S. children confirmed as victims of maltreatment by CPS between birth and age 18. We also estimated differences in maltreatment by race/ethnicity, sex, and year from 2004-2011.
