Freisthler Bridget, Wolf Jennifer Price, Wiegmann Wendy, Kepple Nancy J
1 College of Social Work, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
2 Division of Social Work, California State University, Sacramento, CA, USA.
Child Maltreat. 2017 Aug;22(3):245-255. doi: 10.1177/1077559517711042. Epub 2017 Jun 8.
Although drug use is considered a risk factor for child maltreatment, very little work has examined how the drug environment may affect physical abuse and neglect by parents. Utilizing information from a telephone survey with 2,597 respondents from 43 cities with valid police data on narcotics incidents, we analyzed the relationship between drug use, drug availability, and child maltreatment using multilevel models. City-level rates of drug abuse and dependence were related to more frequent physical abuse. Parents who use drugs in areas with greater availability of drugs reported more physical abuse and physical neglect. Emotional support was protective of all types of maltreatment. While most child welfare interventions focus on reducing parental drug use in order to reduce child abuse, these findings suggest environmental prevention or neighborhood strengthening approaches designed to reduce the supply of illicit drugs may also reduce child abuse through multiple mechanisms.
尽管吸毒被视为虐待儿童的一个风险因素，但很少有研究探讨毒品环境如何影响父母的身体虐待和忽视行为。我们利用对来自43个城市的2597名受访者进行电话调查所获得的信息，这些城市有关于毒品事件的有效警方数据，我们使用多层次模型分析了吸毒、毒品可及性与虐待儿童之间的关系。城市层面的药物滥用和依赖率与更频繁的身体虐待有关。在毒品可及性更高的地区吸毒的父母报告的身体虐待和身体忽视行为更多。情感支持对所有类型的虐待行为都有保护作用。虽然大多数儿童福利干预措施都侧重于减少父母吸毒以减少虐待儿童行为，但这些研究结果表明，旨在减少非法药物供应的环境预防或社区强化方法也可能通过多种机制减少虐待儿童行为。
