Lifetime Prevalence of Investigating Child Maltreatment Among US Children

Kim, Hyunil; Wildeman, Christopher; Jonson‐Reid, Melissa; Drake, Brett

doi:10.2105/ajph.2016.303545

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“…We are optimistic that the 37.4% of all children suspected as victims of maltreatment (Kim et al 2017) can be better protected, but we need to consistently use a standard definition of neglect, identify the causes of neglect, improve the research in undiscovered places, and evaluate universal, macro-level prevention strategies to do so. Indeed, the continued intractability of neglect suggests that a new approach is needed.…”

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Heed Neglect, Disrupt Child Maltreatment: a Call to Action for Researchers

Bullinger

Feely

Raissian

et al. 2019

Int. Journal on Child Malt.

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Child neglect is the most common type of child maltreatment and neglect is present in 80% of the child fatalities attributed to maltreatment. The disruption of child maltreatment must then prioritize neglect prevention. To date, maltreatment prevention efforts have been most effective for physical and sexual abuse. However, traditional prevention strategies and the supporting research have proven to be less effective at preventing neglect. We posit that a new approach of focusing on macro-level factors, such as economies, labor markets, and governmental affairs, should be investigated. These macro-level factors play a key, yet underexplored role in family circumstances, and they strongly influence parents' ability to consistently provide safe and sufficient environments for their children. Existing research, policies, and programs have successfully improved the health and safety of children in many areas including reducing physical and sexual abuse and reducing child deaths from disease and car accidents. Yet, these strategies have not been implemented in the area of child neglect, partially because the research community does not fully understand the causes of neglect. To inform new directions for child protection, we propose shifting the focus of research on neglect away from individual and family-level factors of indicated populations. And, we suggest focusing on macro-level factors that, while receiving far less attention from researchers, show initial promise for understanding the causal pathways of neglect and identifying policies for universal prevention. We conclude with recommendations for advancing the precision and quality of research in this area.

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Heed Neglect, Disrupt Child Maltreatment: a Call to Action for Researchers

Bullinger

Feely

Raissian

et al. 2019

Int. Journal on Child Malt.

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“…Similar to other types of adversity discussed above, the question now is whether these effects are mediated by altered stress system activity and whether different types of maltreatment have different stress signatures. Neglect is the most prevalent form of abuse (Kim, Wildeman, Jonson-Reid, & Drake, 2017); neglect is also experienced by children living in orphanages/institutions due to high child-to-caregiver ratios and frequently rotating caregivers. Studies of institutionalized and postinstitutionalized children are fairly uniform in revealing patterns of hypocortisolism with chronic neglect (although see, Gunnar, Morison, Chisholm, & Schuder, 2001).…”

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Annual Research Review: Early adversity, the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenocortical axis, and child psychopathology

Koss

Gunnar

2017

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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We call attention to critical gaps in the literature to highlight next steps in this research including focus on developmental timing, sex differences, stress buffering, and epigenetic regulation. A better understanding of individual differences in the adversity-HPA axis-psychopathology associations will require continued work addressing how multiple biological and behavioral systems work in concert to shape development.

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“…Neglect is notably the most common form of maltreatment found in Child Protective Service (CPS) records (Kim, Wildeman, Jonson-Reid, & Drake, 2017). Despite the pervasiveness of neglect in CPS records, it is less frequently the focus as a single subtype of interest in empirical studies (Stoltenborgh, Bakermans-Kranenburg, & Van Ijzendoorn, 2013).…”

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Identifying maltreatment subgroups with patterns of maltreatment subtype and chronicity: A latent class analysis approach

Warmingham

Handley

Rogosch

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Child Abuse & Neglect

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Maltreatment experiences are complex, and it is difficult to characterize the heterogeneity in types of maltreatment. Subtypes, such as emotional maltreatment, sexual abuse, physical abuse, and neglect commonly co-occur and may persist across development. Therefore, treating individual maltreatment subtypes as independently occurring is not representative of the nature of maltreatment as it occurs in children's lives. Latent class analysis (LCA) is employed herein to identify subgroups of maltreated children based on commonalities in maltreatment subtype and chronicity. In a sample of 674 low-income urban children, 51.6% of whom experienced officially documented maltreatment, our analyses identified four classes of children, with three distinct classes based on maltreatment subtypes and chronicity, and one group of children who did not experience maltreatment. The largest class of maltreated children identified was the chronic, multi-subtype maltreatment class (57% of maltreated children); a second class was characterized by only neglect in a single developmental period (31% of maltreated children), and the smallest class was characterized by a single subtype of maltreatment (emotional maltreatment, physical, or sexual abuse) occurring in a single developmental period (12% of maltreated children). Characterization of these groups confirms the overlapping nature of maltreatment subtypes. There were notable differences between latent classes on child behavioral and socio-emotional outcomes measured by child self-report and camp counselors report during a one-week summer camp. The largest differences were between the non-maltreated class and the chronic maltreatment class. Children who experienced chronic, multi-subtype maltreatment showed higher levels of externalizing behavior, emotion dysregulation, depression, and anxiety.

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Lifetime Prevalence of Investigating Child Maltreatment Among US Children

Abstract: Child maltreatment investigations are more common than is generally recognized when viewed across the lifespan. Building on other recent work, our data suggest a critical need for increased preventative and treatment resources in the area of child maltreatment.

Cited by 422 publications

References 24 publications

Heed Neglect, Disrupt Child Maltreatment: a Call to Action for Researchers

Heed Neglect, Disrupt Child Maltreatment: a Call to Action for Researchers

Annual Research Review: Early adversity, the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenocortical axis, and child psychopathology

Identifying maltreatment subgroups with patterns of maltreatment subtype and chronicity: A latent class analysis approach

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