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I mention this history, rather than dueling with Sedlak and Broadhurst's statistics, because I think that it exemplifies their selective presentation of information.
In their letter, Sedlak and Broadhurst correctly point out that I participated in a 1991 Conference of Experts that discussed the study's methodology.
In fact, as director of the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect in the mid-1970s, I helped design the study in the first place--long before either Sedlak or Broadhurst were involved.
It is difficult to respond to Sedlak and Broadhurst's letter.
First, at that meeting, I pointed out that the methodological changes that were planned for the study all would have the effect of raising the count of abused and neglected children . In fact, Sedlak and her colleagues described (in a report to HHS) how they planned to "fine-tune" the study to "ensure that categories of key participants who were most likely to encounter suspected maltreatment cases in the [1986 incidence study] are given higher probability of being included in the [new study]."