Dworsky Amy
Chapin Hall at The University of Chicago, 1313 E. 60th St. Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
Child Abuse Negl. 2015 Jul;45:68-79. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2015.04.005. Epub 2015 Apr 21.
Despite the high rate of early parenthood among youth in foster care as well as the increased risk of child maltreatment among children whose adolescent parents have been neglected or abused, very little is known about child welfare services involvement among children whose parents were in foster care when they were born. This study uses administrative data from the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) to examine the occurrence of child abuse and neglect investigations, indicated reports and out of home care placements among the children of youth in foster. Thirty-nine percent of the children were the subject of at least one CPS investigation, 17 percent had at least one indicated report and 11 percent were placed in out of home care at least once before their 5th birthday. Cox proportional hazard models are also estimated to identify characteristics of parenting foster youth and their placement histories associated with the risk of child welfare services involvement. Implications of the findings for policy and practice are discussed.
尽管寄养青年中早育率很高，而且青少年父母曾被忽视或虐待的儿童遭受虐待的风险增加，但对于那些出生时父母处于寄养状态的儿童接受儿童福利服务的情况却知之甚少。本研究使用伊利诺伊州儿童和家庭服务部（DCFS）的行政数据，来调查寄养青年的子女遭受虐待和忽视的调查情况、经证实的报告以及家庭外安置情况。39%的儿童至少接受过一次儿童保护服务（CPS）调查，17%至少有一份经证实的报告，11%在5岁生日前至少有一次被安置在家庭外照料机构。还估计了Cox比例风险模型，以确定寄养青年的养育特征及其安置历史与儿童福利服务介入风险之间的关联。讨论了研究结果对政策和实践的启示。
