(2) The parent's willingness to accept custody and any history of unwillingness to allow parenting time not based
on substantiated abuse;
Not exact matches
Anybody care that out of 70million Catholics and 45,000 priests there were only 6
substantiated cases of
abuse last year by anyone
on the payroll of the Catholic Church in the US.
Meta - analyses of studies evaluating these programs show positive effects
on the competence, efficacy and psychological health of the parents, as well as
on the behaviour of the children.49, 50 A recent implementation study of a strategy for parenting and family support showed that families in the treatment group had far fewer cases of
substantiated child maltreatment,
abuse injuries and out - of - home placements.51
Eric Garner's mother believes her son may still be alive today if the city had taken tougher actions in response to
substantiated abuse allegations against New York Police Department officer Daniel Pantaleo before he encountered Garner
on Staten Island in 2014.
The data listed 779
substantiated abuse and neglect allegations during the period, 73 prosecutions and 13 individuals put
on a do - not - hire list.
The study drew
on two different measures of child
abuse from Army databases:
substantiated child maltreatment reports and medical diagnoses of child maltreatment.
Feeling overwhelmed and lacking confidence, without strong supervisors to whom they could turn for help, workers reported being more likely to
substantiate abuse and neglect cases, making decisions based more
on their fear of administrative repercussions than
on their training and experience.
The program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses, tested with a primarily white sample, produced a 48 percent treatment - control difference in the overall rates of
substantiated rates of child
abuse and neglect (irrespective of risk) and an 80 percent difference for families in which the mothers were low - income and unmarried at registration.21 Corresponding rates of child maltreatment were too low to serve as a viable outcome in a subsequent trial of the program in a large sample of urban African - Americans, 20 but program effects
on children's health - care encounters for serious injuries and ingestions at child age 2 and reductions in childhood mortality from preventable causes at child age 9 were consistent with the prevention of
abuse and neglect.20, 22
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 domain.65