Main Outcomes and Measures The cumulative prevalence of
confirmed child maltreatment by race / ethnicity, sex, and year.
For these women, 22.7 % experienced domestic violence in the past 15 years and were also in families with at least 1
confirmed child maltreatment report.
Not exact matches
Meta - analyses of this expanded research base
confirm the model's impacts on a range of risk and protective factors associated with
child maltreatment.7, 8,9 In addition, all of the major home visitation models in the U.S. are currently engaged in a variety of research activities, many of which are resulting in better defined models and more rigorous attention to the key issue of participant enrolment and retention, staff training and quality assurance standards.10 For example, recent findings emerging from the initial two - year follow - up of the Early Head Start National Demonstration Project
confirm the efficacy of home visitation programs with new parents.
Despite its prevalence and salience for a
child's educational progress, teachers and administrators typically have little formal or
confirmed information about
child maltreatment — either for an individual
child or at the school level.
Five programs showed favorable effects in some aspect of
child maltreatment reduction: (1) Child FIRST showed a favorable effect on family involvement with child protective services53; (2) Early Start on 2 measures, including the percentage who went to the hospital for accident, injury, or accidental poisoning, and parents» report of severe or very severe physical assault25, 26; (3) EHS had a favorable effect on physical punishment at 36 months66; (4) HFA showed 14 favorable impacts on measures of parenting behaviors, such as corporal punishment, self - reported serious physical abuse, and aggression, 30,50,67 — 69 and 1 measure of the biological mother as a confirmed subject of sexual abuse report by the child's seventh birthday50; and (5) NFP had favorable effects on 7 measures, including health care encounters for injuries or ingestions and substantiated abuse or neglect 15 years after program enrollment.34, 35,42,70,71 One program, Healthy Steps, showed no effect on 1 measure in this doma
child maltreatment reduction: (1)
Child FIRST showed a favorable effect on family involvement with child protective services53; (2) Early Start on 2 measures, including the percentage who went to the hospital for accident, injury, or accidental poisoning, and parents» report of severe or very severe physical assault25, 26; (3) EHS had a favorable effect on physical punishment at 36 months66; (4) HFA showed 14 favorable impacts on measures of parenting behaviors, such as corporal punishment, self - reported serious physical abuse, and aggression, 30,50,67 — 69 and 1 measure of the biological mother as a confirmed subject of sexual abuse report by the child's seventh birthday50; and (5) NFP had favorable effects on 7 measures, including health care encounters for injuries or ingestions and substantiated abuse or neglect 15 years after program enrollment.34, 35,42,70,71 One program, Healthy Steps, showed no effect on 1 measure in this doma
Child FIRST showed a favorable effect on family involvement with
child protective services53; (2) Early Start on 2 measures, including the percentage who went to the hospital for accident, injury, or accidental poisoning, and parents» report of severe or very severe physical assault25, 26; (3) EHS had a favorable effect on physical punishment at 36 months66; (4) HFA showed 14 favorable impacts on measures of parenting behaviors, such as corporal punishment, self - reported serious physical abuse, and aggression, 30,50,67 — 69 and 1 measure of the biological mother as a confirmed subject of sexual abuse report by the child's seventh birthday50; and (5) NFP had favorable effects on 7 measures, including health care encounters for injuries or ingestions and substantiated abuse or neglect 15 years after program enrollment.34, 35,42,70,71 One program, Healthy Steps, showed no effect on 1 measure in this doma
child protective services53; (2) Early Start on 2 measures, including the percentage who went to the hospital for accident, injury, or accidental poisoning, and parents» report of severe or very severe physical assault25, 26; (3) EHS had a favorable effect on physical punishment at 36 months66; (4) HFA showed 14 favorable impacts on measures of parenting behaviors, such as corporal punishment, self - reported serious physical abuse, and aggression, 30,50,67 — 69 and 1 measure of the biological mother as a
confirmed subject of sexual abuse report by the
child's seventh birthday50; and (5) NFP had favorable effects on 7 measures, including health care encounters for injuries or ingestions and substantiated abuse or neglect 15 years after program enrollment.34, 35,42,70,71 One program, Healthy Steps, showed no effect on 1 measure in this doma
child's seventh birthday50; and (5) NFP had favorable effects on 7 measures, including health care encounters for injuries or ingestions and substantiated abuse or neglect 15 years after program enrollment.34, 35,42,70,71 One program, Healthy Steps, showed no effect on 1 measure in this domain.65
Although other fields have used synthetic cohort life tables to document the cumulative risk of experiencing an event, no such attempts have been made using official
child maltreatment data.23 Therefore, the purpose of this study was to use synthetic cohort life tables to determine the percentage of US
children confirmed as maltreated according to CPS from birth to 18 years of age.
First, the estimates presented herein may underestimate the true cumulative prevalence of
maltreatment and misestimate racial / ethnic disparities in
child maltreatment because our estimates are based on
maltreatment that came to the attention of and were
confirmed by CPS.
Indeed, the most recent estimate of the cumulative risk for self - reported
maltreatment in a national sample shows that more than 40 % of
children ever experience
maltreatment, indicating that the cumulative prevalence of self - reported
maltreatment is roughly 3 times the cumulative prevalence of
confirmed maltreatment.20 Although this limitation applies to all CPS data, it still bears mentioning.40
Moreover,
child maltreatment is unequally distributed by race / ethnicity, with many more black, Native American, and Hispanic
children experiencing a
confirmed report of
maltreatment at some point than white or, especially, Asian / Pacific Islander
children.
A total of 670000
children (0.9 % of all US
children) experienced a
confirmed report of
maltreatment in 2011 (Table 1).
The National
Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS)
Child File includes information on all US
children with a
confirmed report of
maltreatment, totaling 5689900
children (2004 - 2011).
Design, Setting, and Participants The National
Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS)
Child File includes information on all US
children with a
confirmed report of
maltreatment, totaling 5689900
children (2004 - 2011).
This study provides promise that large - scale home visiting programs may be able to prevent
child maltreatment, yet more studies are needed to
confirm and clarify these findings.»
However, this analysis also
confirms that some of the key ACE scale items, particularly the
child maltreatment exposures, remain very important and make discrete independent contributions, even when many other adversities are considered.
Our research
confirms that infants who receive a diagnosis of NWS are at greater risk for having a substantiated
child maltreatment allegation and for entering foster care.
Recent studies have also
confirmed the relationship between parental deployment and rates of
child maltreatment and neglect involving the at - home caregiving spouse (Gibbs et al. 2007; Rentz et al. 2007).
These include repeated experiences, especially traumatic events and
maltreatment, that begin to consolidate and
confirm the
child's internal working model.