The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) is frequently used to evaluate parenting capacity in cases of child abuse and neglect. This study examined MMPI-2 profiles of 59 males and 217 females who completed the test as part of a parenting capacity evaluation following substantiated allegations of child abuse or neglect. After removing 46 (16.7%) invalid profiles, 230 profiles remained. Of these, 119 (52.7%) had T scores on L (Lie) that were at or above 70, indicating a high frequency of underreporting. Mean T scores on the clinical, restructured clinical (RC), content, and PSY-5 scales were all below 65, and 62 (27.0%) profiles contained no elevations (≥65T) on any of these scales. Elevations on the K-corrected clinical scales were more common than elevations on the other scales. The most commonly elevated scales were RC6, clinical scales 4, 8, 9, 1, 6, 5, and non-K-corrected scale 4. The least frequently elevated scales were ANG, RC9, OBS, and DISC. Multivariate Analyses of Variance (MANOVA) comparing cases with L < 70T and L ≥ 70T showed that elevated scores on L had the greatest effect on the content scales, followed by the RC scales, PSY-5 scales, and the clinical scales without the K-correction. Least affected by elevations on L were the K-corrected clinical scales. The study suggests that efforts to present oneself in a favorable light suppress scores on the MMPI-2 scales to different degrees and that the K-correction is helpful in mitigating the effects of underreporting. Public Significance Statement Although the MMPI-2 is frequently used to evaluate parenting capacity in cases of child abuse and neglect, underreporting of problems is common in these samples. This study found that scores on the K-corrected clinical scales were less likely to be suppressed by underreporting than the scores on the non-K-corrected clinical scales, RC scales, content scales or PSY-5 scales.