Inequities in child protective services contact among First Nations and non-First Nations parents in one Canadian province: a retrospective population-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Parental contact with child protective services (CPS) has been linked to deteriorating health among parents. Capturing rates of CPS contact among parents is therefore important for understanding inequities in exposure and their potential role in amplifying racial inequities in health and wellbeing. Though an extensive body of research in North America has provided population-level analyses of CPS contact among children, a disproportionate percentage of whom are Indigenous, no studies to date have extrapolated estimates to account for contact in parent populations, leading to a fragmented view of the system's reach and impact beyond the child-level. In order to advance health equity-oriented research in this domain, our study calculated previously unexplored population-le

SUBMITTER: Kenny KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11963421 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature