Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel.
Faculty of social and human sciences, Externado University, Calle 12 No. 1-17 Este, Bogotá, Colombia.
Child Abuse Negl. 2022 Sep;131:105634. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2022.105634. Epub 2022 Apr 18.
Alongside deficits in children's wellbeing, the COVID-19 pandemic has created an elevated risk for child maltreatment and challenges for child protective services worldwide. Therefore, some children might be doubly marginalized, as prior inequalities become exacerbated and new risk factors arise.
To provide initial insight into international researchers' identification of children who might have been overlooked or excluded from services during the pandemic.
This study was part of an international collaboration involving researchers from Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Israel, South Africa, Uganda, the UK and the USA. Researchers from each country provided a written narrative in response to the three research questions in focus, which integrated the available data from their countries.
Three main questions were explored: 1) Who are the children that were doubly marginalized? 2) What possible mechanisms may be at the root? and 3) In what ways were children doubly marginalized? The international scholars provided information regarding the three questions. A thematic analysis was employed using the intersectional theoretical framework to highlight the impact of children's various identities.
The analysis yielded three domains: (1) five categories of doubly marginalized children at increased risk of maltreatment, (2) mechanisms of neglect consisting of unplanned, discriminatory and inadequate actions, and (3) children were doubly marginalized through exclusion in policy and practice and the challenges faced by belonging to vulnerable groups.
The COVID-19 pandemic can be used as a case study to illustrate the protection of children from maltreatment during worldwide crises. Findings generated the understanding that child protective systems worldwide must adhere to an intersectionality framework to protect all children and promote quality child protection services.
除了儿童福利方面的不足，COVID-19 大流行使世界各地儿童遭受虐待的风险增加，并对儿童保护服务提出了挑战。因此，一些儿童可能会被双重边缘化，因为先前的不平等现象加剧，新的风险因素出现。
初步了解国际研究人员如何识别在大流行期间可能被忽视或排除在服务之外的儿童。
本研究是巴西、加拿大、哥伦比亚、以色列、南非、乌干达、英国和美国的国际研究人员合作的一部分。来自每个国家的研究人员根据三个重点研究问题提供了书面叙述，这些叙述整合了他们所在国家的现有数据。
探讨了三个主要问题：1）谁是被双重边缘化的儿童？2）可能的根源是什么？3）儿童是如何被双重边缘化的？国际学者提供了关于这三个问题的信息。采用主题分析，利用交叉理论框架突出儿童各种身份的影响。
分析产生了三个领域：1）五种处于虐待高风险的边缘儿童类别，2）包括计划外、歧视性和不充分行动的忽视机制，以及 3）儿童在政策和实践中被排除在外，以及属于弱势群体所面临的挑战，导致被双重边缘化。
COVID-19 大流行可作为一个案例研究，说明在全世界危机期间如何保护儿童免受虐待。研究结果表明，全世界的儿童保护系统必须遵循交叉性框架，以保护所有儿童并促进高质量的儿童保护服务。
