Bénédicte Rouland is with the Centre for Social Data Analytics, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand, and the TrygFonden's Centre for Child Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. Rhema Vaithianathan is with the Centre for Social Data Analytics, Auckland University of Technology, and the School of Economics, Singapore Management University.
Am J Public Health. 2018 Apr;108(4):511-513. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2017.304258. Epub 2018 Feb 22.
To document, via linked administrative data, the cumulative prevalence among New Zealand children of notifications to child protective services (CPS), substantiated maltreatment cases, and out-of-home placements.
We followed all children born in New Zealand in 1998 until the end of 2015 (an overall sample of 55 443 children). We determined the cumulative frequencies of notifications, substantiated maltreatment cases (by subtype), and first entries into foster care from birth through the age of 17 years. We also decomposed CPS involvement by gender.
We found that almost 1 in 4 children had been subject to at least 1 report to CPS at age 17 years (23.5%), and 9.7% had been a victim of substantiated abuse or neglect. We also found that 3.1% had experienced out-of-home placements by age 17 years, with boys being more affected.
Both notifications and substantiated child maltreatment are more common in New Zealand than is generally recognized, with the incidence of notifications higher than the incidence of medicated asthma among children and the prevalence of substantiations similar to the prevalence of obesity.
通过关联的行政数据，记录新西兰儿童向儿童保护服务（CPS）通报、证实虐待案件和家庭外安置的累积患病率。
我们跟踪了 1998 年在新西兰出生的所有儿童，直到 2015 年底（总体样本为 55443 名儿童）。我们确定了从出生到 17 岁期间通报、证实虐待案件（按亚型）和首次进入寄养的累积频率。我们还按性别分解了 CPS 的参与情况。
我们发现，近四分之一的儿童在 17 岁时至少有一次被 CPS 通报（23.5%），9.7%的儿童遭受过证实的虐待或忽视。我们还发现，3.1%的儿童在 17 岁之前经历过家庭外安置，男孩受影响更大。
新西兰的通报和证实的儿童虐待比普遍认识到的更为常见，通报的发生率高于儿童药物治疗哮喘的发生率，而证实的发生率与肥胖的发生率相似。
