Nativity and immigration status among Latino families involved in the child welfare system: Characteristics, risk, and maltreatment

Cardoso, Jodi Berger; Dettlaff, Alan J.; Finno-Velasquez, Megan; Scott, Jennifer; Faulkner, Monica

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2014.06.008

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“…This finding supports the notion that some aspect of the immigration and acculturation process may increase risk of CPS involvement with more time and generations in the United States (Cardoso et al, 2014; Dettlaff et al, 2009). To what extent the increase reflects actual risk of being maltreated, as opposed to increased exposure to and surveillance by child-serving agencies and providers, remains unknown.…”

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“…Research identifying racial and ethnic disparities in child protective services (CPS) involvement in the U.S. has largely focused on the overrepresentation of Black children (Lanier, Maguire-Jack, Walsh, Drake, & Hubel, 2014; Putnam-Hornstein, Needell, King, & Johnson-Motoyama, 2013; Drake, Jolley, Fluke, Lanier, Barth, & Jonson-Reid, 2011) and the growing Latino child population (Johnson-Motoyama, Putnam-Hornstein, Dettlaff, Zhao, Finno-Velasquez, & Needell, 2015; Cardoso, Dettlaff, Finno-Velasquez, Scott, & Faulkner, 2014; Putnam-Hornstein et al, 2013). Growing concern around enhancing sensitivity to ethnicity and culture in the child welfare field has led to increasing efforts to disaggregate data by ethnic groups to identify potentially unique patterns of child maltreatment risk based on factors such as parental birthplace.…”

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“…In the Latino child population, a small but growing body of work highlights the protective effect of parent immigrant status as it relates to CPS involvement, wherein children of Latino immigrants have overall lower rates of reporting, substantiation, and risks associated with maltreatment, than children of U.S. born Latino parents (Cardoso, Dettlaff, Finno-Velasquez, Scott & Faulkner, 2014; Dettlaff, Earner, & Phillips, 2009; Johnson-Motoyama et al, 2015; Putnam-Hornstein & Needell, 2011; Putnam-Hornstein et al, 2013). It is equally plausible that differences in nativity in the API population—which may be reflective of characteristics of recent immigrants that differentiate them from those who do not migrate and distinctive cultural norms, processes, behaviors, interactions with systems, and environmental contexts around family and community supports—may also result in varying levels of involvement with CPS.…”

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A birth cohort study of Asian and Pacific Islander children reported for abuse or neglect by maternal nativity and ethnic origin

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Palmer

Prindle

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Child Abuse & Neglect

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Research identifying racial and ethnic disparities in child protective services (CPS) involvement in the U.S. has focused on the overrepresentation of Black children and the growing Latino child population. Little attention has been paid to children of Asian origin, the most underrepresented group of children in the U.S. CPS system. The objective of this analysis was to examine subgroup patterns of CPS involvement in California for Asian and Pacific Islander (API) children prospectively based on maternal nativity and ethnic origin. We extracted data for API children born in California in 2006 and 2007 (N = 138,858) from population-based birth records and linked those records to CPS records spanning the first 5 years of life (through 2012). We assessed distributional differences in risk indicators for the full birth cohort of API children and calculated a summary risk variable representing the cumulative number of risks present at birth. Generalized linear models were used to estimate API children’s adjusted relative risk of CPS report by subgroup. Overall, 12.2% of children born in California in the 2006–2007 birth cohort were API. The majority of API children had foreign-born mothers (80.9%). Children of U.S.-born Hawaiian, Guamanian, or Samoan mothers had the highest rate, with 20.4% being reported to CPS by their 5th birthday. The lowest rates of child abuse and neglect reporting were observed among children of foreign-born Asian Indian (2.5%), Korean (2.7%), and Chinese (2.8%) mothers, compared to 5.4% of all Asian and Pacific Islander children, and 14.8% of children in general population. Findings underscore the presence of disparities in CPS involvement among API children, which has implications for health and well-being across the life course and for targeted maltreatment prevention strategies.

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A birth cohort study of Asian and Pacific Islander children reported for abuse or neglect by maternal nativity and ethnic origin

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“…However, while children may be eligible for these public programs, lack of documentation for all family members can impact enrollment; children in allcitizen families are more likely to have insurance than are either unauthorized children or citizen children in mixedstatus families (Stevens et al, 2010). Eligible US citizen children with immigrant parents are less likely to participate in Medicaid and CHIP than are children with US-born parents (Cardoso et al 2014). Mixed-status families may avoid Medicaid or other public programs due to fears of exposure or lack of knowledge of eligibility requirements (Watson, 2014).…”

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Irregular Immigration Status Impacts for Children in the USA

Mapp

Hornung

2016

J. Hum. Rights Soc. Work

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Recent public discourse has focused on immigration from Mexico and Central America, with debates about the impact of the undocumented population on the USA. However, less discussed is how the undocumented status of members of immigrant families-i.e., living in a mixed-status family or being unauthorized oneself-has far-reaching impacts on the well-being of children in the family. Ineligibility for services, as well as psychological impacts related to fears of deportation and the stigmatization of an immigrant identity, create numerous and at times unyielding barriers to physical health, educational success, and psycho-social well-being. Examining the current literature provides an overview of these impacts, how they violate children's rights, and their implications.

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“…There is a significant body of research examining the involvement of child welfare services with Latino households (Ai, Lee, Solis, & Yap, 2016;Bailey, Brazil, Conrad-Hiebner, & Counts, 2015;Cardoso, Dettlaff, Finno-Velasquez, Scott, & Faulkner, 2014;Johnson-Motoyama, Dettlaff, & Finno, 2012). Prior research has focused on the differences in child maltreatment characteristics as well as protective and risk factors for Latino households with varying immigration statuses.…”

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Immigrant Latino Fathers’ Perceptions of Child Abuse and Neglect

Kohli

Fineran

2020

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The objective of this qualitative research was to study the lived experiences of child abuse and neglect for immigrant Latino fathers whose children are involved in the child protection process. We documented the narratives of nine immigrant Latino fathers attending fatherhood groups regarding their perceptions of child abuse and neglect.The immigrant Latino fathers highlighted their lack of agency and marginalization due to acculturative parenting stress, structural discrimination, and immigration status. They are burdened with physical and emotional pain that diffuses into their children’s lives and results in unhealthy coping strategies. The Latino fathers faced everyday microaggressions, racial abuses, and discrimination due to their agency and role as Latino immigrants. They chronicled their frustrations dueto distrust of the mainstream social service providers, police, immigration officials, and abuse meted on them due to their marginalized identities. We provide practice and policy recommendations for professionals working with immigrant Latino families.

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Nativity and immigration status among Latino families involved in the child welfare system: Characteristics, risk, and maltreatment

Cited by 26 publications

References 39 publications

A birth cohort study of Asian and Pacific Islander children reported for abuse or neglect by maternal nativity and ethnic origin

A birth cohort study of Asian and Pacific Islander children reported for abuse or neglect by maternal nativity and ethnic origin

Irregular Immigration Status Impacts for Children in the USA

Immigrant Latino Fathers’ Perceptions of Child Abuse and Neglect

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