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Child maltreatment in rural southern counties: Another perspective on race, poverty and child welfare.
- Source :
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Child abuse & neglect [Child Abuse Negl] 2018 Jun; Vol. 80, pp. 52-61. Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 Mar 19. - Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Building on research that has identified community characteristics associated with child maltreatment, this study investigates the adequacy and equity of the child welfare response at the county level. The study focuses on states in the U.S. south with demographic characteristics that make it possible to disentangle county racial composition from county rurality. County-level child maltreatment data were merged with data from the U.S. Census and other publicly-available sources for the 354 counties in four southern states. Results from multiple regression models indicated that, despite a greater preponderance of risk factors typically associated with child maltreatment, rural, majority African-American counties had lower rates of reported and substantiated child maltreatment compared to other southern counties. Cross-sectional results were consistent across three years: 2012, 2013, and 2014. The findings suggest that children and families in rural, majority African-American counties in the South may not be receiving adequate or equitable responses from the formal child welfare system.<br /> (Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)
- Subjects :
- Censuses
Child
Child Abuse economics
Child Abuse statistics & numerical data
Child Welfare economics
Child, Preschool
Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
Hispanic or Latino
Humans
Male
Multivariate Analysis
Risk Factors
Southeastern United States
United States
Black or African American
Child Abuse ethnology
Child Welfare ethnology
Poverty
Rural Population
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1873-7757
- Volume :
- 80
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Child abuse & neglect
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 29567457
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2018.03.012