Breaking the Silence: Investigating the Prevalence and Key Risk Factors of Child Maltreatment among Male Working Children in a Rural Community in Bangladesh

Table 1

Respondents’ demographics and sociocontextual details, .

Characteristics	No. of participants	% of the sample
Age (year)
Up to 14	203	53.7
15 and above	175	46.3
Birth order of children
1^st baby	118	31.2
2^nd baby	102	27.0
3^rd baby	91	24.1
≥4^th baby	67	17.7
No. of children in the family
One	10	2.6
Two	96	25.4
Three	130	34.4
≥Four	142	37.6
Religion
Muslim	356	94.2
Hindu	22	5.8
The education level of children
No schooling	20	5.3
Primary (1-5 grade)	227	60.0
Secondary (6-10 grade)	122	32.2
Higher secondary (11-12 grade)	9	2.4
Marital status
Married	9	2.4
Unmarried	369	97.6
Smoker	98	25.9
Living arrangement
Biological parents	362	93.8
Other	16	4.3
Father’s education level
Nonformal	216	57.1
Primary	100	26.5
Others	62	16.4
Mother’s education level
Nonformal	168	44.4
Primary	156	41.3
Others	54	14.3
Feeling safe at home always	350	92.6
Adult at home shouted in a frightening way	255	67.5
Witnessed adults’ physical violence (home)	292	77.2
Witnessed adults at home use weapons to hit others at home	49	13.0
Bullied by siblings	128	33.9