This study aimed to provide information on the recurrences of child maltreatment in over 200 families originally surveyed in a 1984 study entitled, 'Fertility and Contraception Among Low-Income Child Abusing Mothers in Baltimore, MD'. Participants consisted of two groups: the abuse group included 118 women with one or more physically abused children, and the neglect group included 119 women who were known to have personally neglected one or more children. At recruitment in 1984, all women were residents of Baltimore, Maryland (United States of America), received Aid to Families With Dependent Children (AFDC), were known to have at least one natural child age 12 or under, and were single parents. Data for the original study were collected in 1984 and 1985. Follow-up data were collected in 1992 from records obtained from the Baltimore City Department of Social Services for the period of 1984 to 1992.