Table 3.

Prevalence of Maltreatment and Obesity by Level of Maternal Characteristics

	Characteristic,		Neglect, % Ever	Corporal Punishment, % Highest Quintile	Psychological Aggression, % Highest Quintile	Child Obese, %b
	Na	%
Race/ethnicity
White, non-Hispanic	469	19.4	6.0	17.5	16.6	14.7
Black, non-Hispanic	1256	52.1	12.3	24.5	25.2	16.0
Hispanic (any race)	612	25.4	12.4	10.1	13.1	25.5
Other race, non-Hispanic	75	3.1	12.0	17.3	28.0	16.0
P value			0.002	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Education
Less than high school	714	29.6	13.6	16.6	19.3	21.3
High school degree	703	29.2	11.1	21.9	21.2	17.4
Some college	733	30.4	10.9	22.1	23.4	17.2
College graduate or more	259	10.8	4.6	12.0	14.3	14.3
P value			0.002	<0.001	0.01	0.04
Relationship status
Married	750	31.1	8.3	17.4	16.5	16.5
Cohabiting	743	30.8	10.8	17.5	19.6	19.6
Single	916	38.0	13.6	22.4	24.6	18.2
P value			0.002	0.011	<0.001	0.29
Age at delivery (years)
<20	453	18.8	12.8	26.7	22.1	15.4
20-24	870	36.1	11.3	22.6	24.4	20.7
25-29	559	23.2	11.6	15.2	19.1	15.2
≥30	530	22.0	8.7	11.9	14.3	19.4
P value			0.19	<0.001	<0.001	0.02
Body mass index (kg/m2)
<25.0	708	31.2	12.4	18.4	17.8	12.6
25.0-29.9	623	27.5	9.6	17.5	19.3	16.4
30.0-34.9	445	19.6	9.2	18.4	21.8	21.4
≥35.0	491	21.7	13.0	25.5	26.1	23.0
P value			0.11	0.004	0.004	<0.001
Smoking in pregnancy
None	1947	80.9	10.3	18.8	19.2	18.4
<1pack/day	405	16.8	14.8	21.7	26.5	15.3
≥1 pack/day	54	2.2	11.1	20.4	24.1	29.6
P value			0.03	0.38	0.004	0.03

^aIf N <2412, the subject was missing data for that item.

^bBody mass index ≥95^th percentile.