Centre for Child and Family Studies, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands.
Child Maltreat. 2009 Nov;14(4):369-75. doi: 10.1177/1077559509342125. Epub 2009 Aug 5.
Does child maltreatment occur more often in adoptive and stepfamilies than in biological families? Data were collected from all 17 Dutch child protective services (CPS) agencies on 13,538 cases of certified child maltreatment in 2005. Family composition of the maltreated children was compared to a large national representative sample of the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (NKPS). Larger families, one-parent families, and families with a stepparent showed elevated risks for child maltreatment. Adoptive families, however, showed significantly less child maltreatment than expected. The findings are discussed in the context of parental investment theory that seems to be applicable to stepparents but not to adoptive parents.
虐待儿童是否更常发生在收养家庭和继亲家庭中，而不是亲生家庭中？2005 年，从荷兰所有 17 家儿童保护服务机构收集了 13538 例经证实的儿童虐待案例的数据。受虐待儿童的家庭结构与荷兰亲属关系面板研究（NKPS）的大型全国代表性样本进行了比较。大家庭、单亲家庭和有继父或继母的家庭出现儿童虐待的风险较高。然而，收养家庭的儿童虐待情况明显低于预期。研究结果在父母投资理论的背景下进行了讨论，该理论似乎适用于继父或继母，但不适用于养父母。
