1 School of Social Work, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Child Maltreat. 2018 Aug;23(3):303-315. doi: 10.1177/1077559518767337. Epub 2018 Apr 11.
Neglect is the most common form of reported child maltreatment in the United States with 75.3% of confirmed child maltreatment victims in 2015 neglected. Despite constituting the majority of reported child maltreatment cases and victims, neglect still lacks a standard definition. In the United States, congruent with the pervasiveness of law in child welfare systems, every state and the District of Columbia has its own statutory definition of neglect. This study used content analysis to compare state legal statutory definitions with the Fourth National Incidence Survey (NIS-4) operationalization of neglect. The resulting data set was then analyzed using cluster analysis, resulting in the identification of three distinct groups of states based on how they define neglect: minimal, cornerstones, and expanded. The states' definitions incorporate few of the NIS-4 components. Practice and policy implications of these constructions of neglect definitions are discussed.
忽视是美国最常见的报告虐待儿童形式，2015 年有 75.3%的经证实的虐待儿童受害者受到忽视。尽管忽视构成了大多数报告的虐待儿童案件和受害者，但它仍然缺乏一个标准的定义。在美国，与法律在儿童福利系统中的普遍存在相一致，每个州和哥伦比亚特区都有自己关于忽视的法定定义。本研究使用内容分析比较了州法律法定定义与第四次国家发生率调查（NIS-4）忽视的操作化定义。然后使用聚类分析对所得数据集进行分析，根据各州定义忽视的方式，确定了三个不同的州组：最小、基石和扩展。各州的定义只包含了 NIS-4 中的少数几个组成部分。讨论了这些忽视定义结构对实践和政策的影响。
