Cumulative Rates of Child Protection Involvement and Terminations of Parental Rights in a California Birth Cohort, 1999–2017
| Autor: | Christopher Wildeman, Joseph Magruder, Daniel Webster, John Prindle, Eunhye Ahn, Emily Putnam-Hornstein |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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030505 public health
business.industry 05 social sciences Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Child Welfare 03 medical and health sciences Child protection Medicine Open-Themed Research Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Child Abuse 0305 other medical science Birth cohort business Child 050104 developmental & child psychology Demography |
| Zdroj: | Am J Public Health |
| Popis: | Objectives. To document the cumulative childhood risk of different levels of involvement with the child protection system (CPS), including terminations of parental rights (TPRs). Methods. We linked vital records for California’s 1999 birth cohort (n = 519 248) to CPS records from 1999 to 2017. We used sociodemographic information captured at birth to estimate differences in the cumulative percentage of children investigated, substantiated, placed in foster care, and with a TPR. Results. Overall, 26.3% of children were investigated for maltreatment, 10.5% were substantiated, 4.3% were placed in foster care, and 1.1% experienced a TPR. Roughly 1 in 2 Black and Native American children were investigated during childhood. Children receiving public insurance experienced CPS involvement at more than twice the rate of children with private insurance. Conclusions. Findings provide a lower-bound estimate of CPS involvement and extend previous research by documenting demographic differences, including in TPRs. Public Health Implications. Conservatively, CPS investigates more than a quarter of children born in California for abuse or neglect. These data reinforce policy questions about the current scope and reach of our modern CPS. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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