Centre for Child and Family Studies, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands.
Child Maltreat. 2011 Feb;16(1):63-73. doi: 10.1177/1077559510385842. Epub 2010 Nov 1.
Are immigrant families at elevated risk for child maltreatment, and if so, what role do socioeconomic and family composition factors play? In a national prevalence study on child maltreatment in the Netherlands, child maltreatment cases were reported by 1,121 professionals from various occupational branches. Maltreating families were compared to a national representative family sample on immigrant status and parental educational level and family composition factors. The authors differentiated between traditional immigrant families who immigrated as labor migrants from Turkey, Morocco, Suriname, and the Antillean Islands, and nontraditional immigrant families who more recently immigrated from countries with severe economic hardships or political turmoil (refugees). Traditional immigrant and nontraditional immigrant families were both significantly overrepresented among maltreating families, but this overrepresentation disappeared for the traditional immigrants after correction for educational level of the parents. Nontraditional immigrant families, however, remained at increased risk for child maltreatment even after correction for educational level. It is proposed that interventions to prevent child maltreatment in immigrant families should focus on decreasing socioeconomic risks associated with low levels of education.
移民家庭是否面临更高的儿童虐待风险？如果是，社会经济和家庭构成因素在其中扮演什么角色？在一项针对荷兰儿童虐待的全国性流行研究中，1121 名来自不同职业领域的专业人员报告了儿童虐待案件。研究人员将虐待家庭与全国具有代表性的家庭样本进行比较，比较因素包括移民身份、父母教育水平和家庭构成因素。作者将移民家庭分为传统移民家庭和非传统移民家庭，传统移民家庭是指来自土耳其、摩洛哥、苏里南和荷属安的列斯群岛的劳务移民，而非传统移民家庭则是指最近因经济困难或政治动荡而从其他国家（难民）移民而来的家庭。研究发现，传统移民家庭和非传统移民家庭在受虐待家庭中都明显过多，但在对父母的教育水平进行校正后，传统移民家庭的这种代表性过高现象消失了。然而，非传统移民家庭即使在对教育水平进行校正后，仍面临更高的儿童虐待风险。因此，预防移民家庭儿童虐待的干预措施应侧重于降低与教育水平低相关的社会经济风险。
