Families receiving nurse visitation during pregnancy and infancy had fewer child maltreatment reports involving
mother as perpetrator and study child as victim.
Results Families receiving home visitation during pregnancy and infancy had significantly fewer child maltreatment reports involving
the mother as perpetrator (P =.01) or the study child as subject (P =.04) than families not receiving home visitation.
The primary outcome variables for this analysis were the number of substantiated reports over the entire 15 - year period involving the study child regardless of the identity of the perpetrator or involving
the mother as perpetrator regardless of the identity of the child.
Because program effects were hypothesized to be concentrated on the mother and her first - born child, only reports involving either
the mother as perpetrator or the study child as subject were coded.
Main Outcome Measures Number of substantiated reports over the entire 15 - year period involving the study child as subject regardless of the identity of the perpetrator or involving
the mother as perpetrator regardless of the identity of the child abstracted from state records and analyzed by treatment group and level of domestic violence in the home as measured by the Conflict Tactics Scale.
Consistent with our earlier report, 10 there were significantly fewer child maltreatment reports involving
the mother as perpetrator (P =.01) or involving the study child (P =.04) for families receiving home visitations during pregnancy and infancy vs families not receiving home visitation.
Home visits reduced the number of verified reports of child abuse and neglect involving
the mother as perpetrator (incidence 0.29 v 0.54, p < 0.001).
A subgroup analysis of high risk women who were unmarried and from low SES households (40 %) showed that home visits reduced the number of subsequent births (mean difference [MD] 0.5, p = 0.02), months that women received welfare (MD 29.9, p = 0.005), reports of behavioural impairment due to substance abuse (incidence 0.41 v 0.73, p = 0.005), records of arrests (incidence 0.16 v 0.90, p < 0.001), convictions (incidence 0.13 v 0.69, p < 0.001), and verified reports of child abuse and neglect involving
the mother as perpetrator (incidence 0.11 v 0.53, p < 0.01).
Finding a significant interaction effect when the maltreatment outcome focused on reports involving only
mothers as perpetrators rules out the possibility that the effects observed were the result of the same partners committing violence against both the mothers and the children.
Not exact matches
In the report, Cruz, then 18, was listed
as an «alleged victim» of medical neglect and inadequate supervision; his
mother, 68 - year - old Lynda Cruz, the «alleged
perpetrator.»
The father or
mother who does nothing to prevent child abuse within their own family is
as guilty
as the
perpetrator, in my opinion...
Cruz, then 18, was listed
as an «alleged victim» of medical neglect and inadequate supervision; his adoptive
mother, then -68-year-old Lynda Cruz, the «alleged
perpetrator.»
Sons and daughters were equally
as likely to be victims
as perpetrators after witnessing their fathers hitting their
mothers.
Comment: The above calculation by the National Clearinghouse, which reflect «household» rather than «
perpetrator» are overly generous in impression
as far
as physical abuse perpetrated by
mothers and fathers (versus stepparents and third parties.)
Myth — Men and Women are equal
perpetrators of child abuse; children are
as (or more) likely to be physically abused and / or killed by their
mothers as by their fathers.
The National Clearinghouse statistics reflect «household» rather than «
perpetrator», and thus give a misleading impression
as far
as physical abuse perpetrated by
mothers versus fathers (versus stepparents and third parties.)