Longitudinal Understanding of Child Maltreatment Report Risks.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Child maltreatment reports (CMR) are both common and strongly associated with various negative outcomes.

Objective

To examine CMR risks by child age, early childhood context, current/cumulative economic status (welfare receipt), race, and other risk factors with a longitudinal dataset.

Participants and setting

The CAN sample included 2,111 children having a CMR ≤ age 3, suggestive of a harmful early childhood context. The AFDC sample included 1,923 children having AFDC but no CMR ≤ age 3, suggestive of early childhood protective factors despite poverty.

Methods

We estimated the CMR likelihood at each age from 1-17 years based on various risk factors while following up children from 1995-2009.

Results

During follow-up, CMR likelihoods were subs

SUBMITTER: Kim H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8323119 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature