This chapter reviews the conceptual and empirical linkages between poverty and parenting,
focuses on the economic dimension of poverty at the family rather than the neighborhood …

While the disproportional application of school discipline has garnered notable attention, the
relationship between trauma or adversity and school discipline is under examined. The …

The current study investigates the role of race and county characteristics in substantiation
and out-of-home placement decisions in the United States. Using multilevel models, we …

In this study, we use microsimulation methods to estimate the reduction in child protective
services (CPS) involvement resulting from implementation of three of the policy packages …

Families are impacted by a variety of risk and protective factors for maltreatment at multiple
levels of the social ecology. Individual-and neighborhood-level poverty has consistently …

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with severe problems later in life.
This study examines how eleven types of ACEs and mental health care use history are …

Child maltreatment increases the risk of poor developmental outcomes. However, some
children display resilience, meaning they are high-functioning despite their adverse …

In this study, we analyze first whether there is a common spatial distribution of child
maltreatment (CM) and intimate partner violence (IPV), and second, whether the risks of CM …

This article addresses some potential limitations of key findings from recent research into
inequalities in children's social services by providing additional evidence from multilevel …

Background While past research has suggested the importance of informal social support
and early childhood programs for the well-being of child welfare supervised families and …