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While low-income is a common risk factor for child welfare involvement, an analysis of the greater contexts of poverty enables a better understanding of the relationship between financial hardship and child welfare involvement. This study demonstrates how low-income in and of itself does not account for higher rates of child-welfare involvement; it is the “environments of desperation and…

… Timing of First Exposure to Maternal Depression and Adolescent Emotional Disorder in a National Canadian … 7(3), 1-6. Timing of First Exposure to Maternal Depression and Adolescent Emotional Disorder in a National Canadian … (n=937) from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY), a longitudinal study established by … Maternal depression is identified as a risk factor for childhood psychopathology. This paper investigated whether the time period of initial exposure to maternal depression differs according to its influence on later adolescent emotional disorders. The study analyzed data (n=937) from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY), a longitudinal study established by Statistics…

… differential association of socioeconomic vulnerabilities and neglect-related child protection involvement across … J. D. Trocmé, N. Bywaters, P. Children and Youth Services Review  The differential association of socioeconomic … geographies, suggesting that increased vulnerability to investigation for neglect is related to a sparse geographic … Abstract Background/Purpose This paper explores the use of social geographic data and multilevel latent modeling to make initial predictions on geographic variation in child protection involvement for reasons of neglect, resulting in novel findings regarding the relationship between poverty and neglect in low-density geographies in the province of Quebec, Canada. Method This study used…

The highest rate of victimization, among the 3.5 million investigated cases of child maltreatment in 2008 in the US, was for children under the age of 4. Child maltreatment can have a profound impact on children’s overall development in language, cognition, motor skills and social development. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the language development in auditory comprehension (AC) and…

… Supervisory neglect and risk of harm. Evidence from the Canadian child welfare … Child Abuse & Neglect, 36, 471-480. Supervisory neglect and risk of harm. Evidence from the Canadian child welfare system. Although it constitutes a large portion of investigations little is known about how child welfare … Although it constitutes a large portion of investigations little is known about how child welfare workers assess harm and risk of harm in making investigation and intervention decisions in cases of supervisory neglect. Using secondary analysis of the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect 2008 (CIS-2008) (n=4159), this study describes the nature and severity of injuries…

… Connecting Father Absence and Mother Blame in Child Welfare Policies and Practice 2008 … Marilyn Walmsley, Christopher Children and Youth Services Review, Volume 30, Issue 7, pp. 705-716 Connecting Father … the lack of father engagement in a retrospective case file review of 116 child protection files dated between 1997 and … This study explored the lack of father engagement in a retrospective case file review of 116 child protection files dated between 1997 and 2005 randomly chosen from a child welfare agency in a mid-size Canadian city. Choice of case files was restricted to those in which the mother was an adolescent (19 years of age or younger) at the time of the birth of at least one child. Within the 116 files,…

Le bien-être subjectif des enfants est déterminé par les conditions politiques, sociales et économiques au sein de leur environnement socioculturel. Cette étude examine le lien entre divers contextes de sécurité collective dans les pays participants et le bien-être subjectif des enfants dans les six domaines suivants : santé (p. ex., satisfaction à l’égard de l’état de santé), biens matériels (p…

… Differentiating between substantiated, suspected, and unsubstantiated maltreatment in Canada 2009 Auteurs … pp. 4–16. Differentiating between substantiated, suspected, and unsubstantiated maltreatment in Canada The authors … found to be associated with the decision to classify an investigation as suspected rather than unsubstantiated … The authors discuss the complexities associated with classifying child maltreatment according to substantiation status. Substantiation status is often used as a proxy measure for maltreatment, and can in turn shape the research findings that appear in the literature. Certain jurisdictions and research projects utilize a three-tiered classification system (including substantiated, suspected, and…

… Wendy Fallon, Barbara Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma, 23(5): 532-551 Physical abuse among Asian … This study examined differences in case characteristics and service dispositions in substantiated physical abuse investigations by comparing Asian families (East and … This study examined differences in case characteristics and service dispositions in substantiated physical abuse investigations by comparing Asian families (East and Southeast Asian) to non-Asian families involved with the Canadian child welfare system. Through secondary data analyses of the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect 2003 (CIS-2003), the authors found a higher…

… of out-of-home-placements for children in juvenile justice and child welfare systems … 1 … en … Study finds that … of out-of-home-placements for children in juvenile justice and child welfare systems … Many children and adolescents in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems require mental health services, yet fail to receive it. This study of Tennessee's Department of Children's Services (DCS, an integrated child welfare and juvenile justice systems) sought to identify the proportion of children in Tennessee who needed specialty mental health services, how many received it, and the…