Table 3: Experience of Emotional Abuse from Parents or Guardians by Gender and Child Protection Status

Total Male Female Child Non-Protection Case Child Protection Case
Total (N) 2980 1579 1401 2128 852
Weighted (N) 2980 1555 1425 2794 186
Addressed in humiliating (e.g. being called lazy, stupid, or useless) manner by parents/guardians (%) 13.1 12.6 13.7 12.0 30.6
Humiliated or degraded in public by parents/guardians (%) 5.4 4.4 6.4 4.7 16.4
Threatened about getting thrown out of the home by parents/guardians (%) 13.6 15.3 11.7 12.3 33.3
Threatened about violent punishment by parents/guardians (%) 3.0 3.1 2.9 2.4 12.0
Parents/guardians have through their behaviour shown that you were unwanted, unloved, and worthless (%) 4.9 4.1 5.8 3.9 19.8
Parents/guardians have critized or bullied you constantly (%) 2.9 2.0 3.9 2.3 12.3
Total (%) 5.2 4.4 6.1 4.2 19.6

Note. All percentage values are weighted; Total = Positive endorsement of at least three items; Categories were not mutually exclusive.