Children and Family Research Center, School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1010 West Nevada Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Child Abuse Negl. 2011 Nov;35(11):956-64. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2011.06.004. Epub 2011 Nov 8.
This study examined the relative risk of placement disruption for 3-10 year-old children placed in out-of-home care based on the biological relatedness of the placement caregiver and child disability status: no disability, a non-behavioral disability only, a behavioral disability only, or both a non-behavioral and behavioral disability.
Data were used from the baseline and 36 month follow-up of the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being, a national probability study of children investigated for child abuse and neglect in the United States. Disability status was derived using several different nationally-normed measures of language development, daily-living skills, social skills, and behavioral problems.
Around 1 in 4 children placed in out-of-home care experienced a disruption. Placement with kin decreased the likelihood of disruption for a majority of children, and children with different types of disabilities were no more or less likely to disrupt in kinship care compared to children with no disability. Older children with a behavioral disability only or both a non-behavioral and behavioral disability were more likely to disrupt compared to younger regardless of placement.
The study findings suggest that maltreated children placed with kin will be afforded the same stability provided to children without a disability.
本研究通过考察儿童残疾状况（无残疾、非行为残疾、行为残疾或同时存在非行为和行为残疾）与安置照顾者的生物亲缘关系，探讨了 3 至 10 岁儿童被安置在家庭以外照料机构中时的安置中断风险。
数据来自美国全国儿童和青少年福利调查的基线和 36 个月随访，这是一项对遭受虐待和忽视的儿童进行调查的全国性概率研究。残疾状况是使用语言发展、日常生活技能、社会技能和行为问题的几种不同全国标准化测量方法得出的。
大约 1/4 被安置在家庭以外照料机构的儿童经历了安置中断。对于大多数儿童来说，与亲属安置降低了中断的可能性，与无残疾的儿童相比，具有不同类型残疾的儿童在亲属照料中中断的可能性没有更高或更低。与年幼的儿童相比，只有行为残疾或同时存在非行为和行为残疾的年龄较大的儿童无论安置情况如何，中断的可能性都更高。
研究结果表明，与亲属一起安置的受虐待儿童将获得与无残疾儿童相同的稳定性。
