Is Biting by a Toddler Normal? What is a Norm?

Based on the results of one study, toddlers at age 16-30 months who are enrolled in a child care center are the most likely to bite. Children not enrolled in a child care center displayed significantly less biting behavior. For toddlers enrolled in a child care center, on average, each toddler initiated 3.13 bites per 100 days (3.66 bites for male toddlers and 2.3 bites for female toddlers) in the child care center. For infants and toddlers, the incidence of biting was less than one bite per 100 days, and there was no difference between boys and girls. As for why toddlers bite and how to deal with the problem, most of the work to date is theory-based, and no empirical research was located.

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1. "Total bite rates (which took into account multiple bites per child over the 12-month study period) varied significantly by age group, with toddlers having the highest rate per 100 days of enrollment and preschoolers the lowest (infants, 2.1931; toddlers, 3.1300; preschoolers, 0.5611). Males and females differed significantly in total bite rates per 100 enrollment days within the toddler age group (males, 3.6683; females, 2.3096) but not within the other two age groups. None of the demographic characteristics available in this study distinguished between children who were bitten compared with those who were not bitten with the exception of number of days of enrollment."

Based on 1 reviewed studies, 1 supports this 0 against this 0 inconclusive

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1: "Epidemiology Of Human Bites To Children In A Day-Care Center," American Journal of Diseases of Children, 1988, by J Garrard, N Leland, DK Smith. (Citations: 33).

The studies in the literature that describe bites of children by adults are often in the context of a discussion of clinical evidence in child-abuse cases, 3 or in the context of bites by adults in fights, with a distinctionbeingmade be tween actual bite wounds and clenched fist ...

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