Has the relationship between community poverty and child maltreatment report rates become stronger or weaker over time?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Poverty is among the most powerful predictors of child maltreatment risk and reporting. To date, however, there have been no studies assessing the stability of this relationship over time.

Objective

To examine whether the county-level relationship between child poverty rates and child maltreatment report (CMR) rates changed over time in the United States in 2009-2018, overall and across of child age, sex, race/ethnicity, and maltreatment type.

Participants and setting

U.S. Counties in 2009-2018.

Methods

Linear multilevel models estimated this relationship and its longitudinal change, while controlling for potential confounding variables.

Results

We found that the county-level relationship between child poverty rates and CMR rates had intensifi

SUBMITTER: Kim H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10651183 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature