Neglect Subtypes, Race, and Poverty: Individual, Family, and Service Characteristics

Jonson-Reid, Melissa; Drake, Brett; Zhou, Pan

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Neglect Subtypes, Race, and Poverty: Individual, Family, and Service Characteristics

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Oct 29 2012
By Jonson-Reid, Melissa ; Drake, Brett ; Zhou, Pan

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Child Maltreat
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Jonson-Reid, Melissa ; Drake, Brett ; Zhou, Pan
Description:

Recent child maltreatment research has highlighted the very different context of poverty for Black and White children. Neglect is the most common form of maltreatment and strongly associated with poverty. Neglect is, however, not a unitary construct. We lack an understanding of whether reporting of and responding to different types of neglect may vary by poverty, race, or the intersection of the two. Administrative census, child welfare, welfare, health, and education data were used to examine how family and community poverty factors associate with various subtypes of neglect and subsequent case dispositions for Black and White children. Black children reported to child welfare reside in far poorer communities than Whites, even after taking into account family income (Aid to Families with Dependent Children [AFDC]/Temporary Aid to Needy Families [TANF]). Black children were more commonly reported and substantiated for severe and basic needs neglect. Community poverty indicators had a different relationship to report disposition for Black as compared to White children after controlling for neglect subtypes, child and family characteristics. Implications for practice and policy are discussed.
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Black Or African American Child, Preschool Child Abuse Child Abuse, Sexual Child Welfare Family Characteristics Female Humans Income Male Poverty White Young Adult
Source:

Child Maltreat. 2012; 18(1):30-41
Pubmed ID:

23109353
Pubmed Central ID:

PMC3600388
Document Type:

Journal Article
Funding:

R01 CE001190/CE/NCIPC CDC HHS/United States ; R01 MH061733/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; CE001190/CE/NCIPC CDC HHS/United States ; R01MH061733-04A1/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States
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Midwestern United States
Volume:

18
Issue:

1
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CDC Public Access
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