Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Child Maltreat. 2021 Nov;26(4):431-440. doi: 10.1177/10775595211007205. Epub 2021 Mar 31.
Intimate partner violence (IPV) negatively affects children. Although IPV-related reports frequently come to the attention of child protective services (CPS), there is neither a unified standard for how CPS systems should respond, nor sufficient research documenting that reaction. The current study used population-based administrative records from California to assess how CPS responds to reported allegations of IPV, with and without physical abuse and/or neglect allegations. We used multinomial regression to model the likelihood of investigation outcomes. Results indicate that 20.7% of CPS reports had IPV alleged during hotline screening, and of those, just 3.2% were screened out compared to 20.2% for reports where IPV was not alleged. Almost half (45.5%) of IPV-alleged reports came from law enforcement, in contrast to 15.2% of reports that did not allege IPV. IPV-alleged reports were more likely to have allegations substantiated without a case opened for services, but less likely to result in foster care placements. Several statistically significant differences were identified by the type of alleged maltreatment co-reported with IPV. This study contributes to an understanding of how CPS responds to IPV-alleged reports.
亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）对儿童有负面影响。尽管儿童保护服务（CPS）经常关注与 IPV 相关的报告，但 CPS 系统应该如何做出反应既没有统一的标准，也没有足够的研究来记录这种反应。本研究使用来自加利福尼亚州的基于人群的行政记录，评估 CPS 如何应对报告的 IPV 指控，包括是否伴有身体虐待和/或忽视指控。我们使用多项回归来模拟调查结果的可能性。结果表明，20.7%的 CPS 报告在热线筛查期间有 IPV 指控，其中只有 3.2%被筛除，而没有 IPV 指控的报告为 20.2%。几乎一半（45.5%）的 IPV 指控报告来自执法部门，而没有 IPV 指控的报告则为 15.2%。有 IPV 指控的报告更有可能在没有提出服务案件的情况下被证实存在指控，但不太可能导致寄养安置。与 IPV 一起报告的涉嫌虐待的类型确定了几个具有统计学意义的差异。本研究有助于了解 CPS 如何应对有 IPV 指控的报告。
