OBJECTIVE: To characterize child abuse in girls/children in educational institutions of the town of Huancavelica. METHODS: observational, descriptive level, inductive and deductive methods, simple descriptive design, population 847, sample census.RESULTS: 76.5% children (as) living in nuclear families and 23.5% in dysfunctional families, physical abuse mild 0.8% between 10 and 11 years, 1.3% boys and 0.8% girls; Mom mainly aggressor; moderate 6.6% over 10 years and 6.5% in 11 years; 9.7% 7.7% girls and boys, brothers aggressors, dad, cousin, uncle, neighbor, grandmother; severe 30.9% in 11 years and 30.1% over10 years, 43.1% girls and 37.4% boys, bullies mother, cousin, neighbor, brother, sister, young, stepfather and father. Being forms interchangeably in children / girls punching, slapping, kicking, pinching, pushing, pulling hair, whips, pulling of ears and belting; shoving, whipping....

OBJECTIVE: To characterize child abuse in girls/children in educational institutions of the town of Huancavelica. METHODS: observational, descriptive level, inductive and deductive methods, simple descriptive design, population 847, sample census.RESULTS: 76.5% children (as) living in nuclear families and 23.5% in dysfunctional families, physical abuse mild 0.8% between 10 and 11 years, 1.3% boys and 0.8% girls; Mom mainly aggressor; moderate 6.6% over 10 years and 6.5% in 11 years; 9.7% 7.7% girls and boys, brothers aggressors, dad, cousin, uncle, neighbor, grandmother; severe 30.9% in 11 years and 30.1% over10 years, 43.1% girls and 37.4% boys, bullies mother, cousin, neighbor, brother, sister, young, stepfather and father. Being forms interchangeably in children / girls punching, slapping, kicking, pinching, pushing, pulling hair, whips, pulling of ears and belting; shoving, whipping....