TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Longitudinal understanding of child maltreatment report risks
JO  - Child abuse and neglect
A1  - Kim, Hyunil
A1  - Drake, Brett
A1  - Jonson-Reid, Melissa
SP  - e104467
EP  - e104467
VL  - 104
IS  - 
N2  - BACKGROUND: Child maltreatment reports (CMR) are both common and strongly associated with various negative outcomes. <br><br>OBJECTIVE: To examine CMR risks by child age, early childhood context, current/cumulative economic status (welfare receipt), race, and other risk factors with a longitudinal dataset. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING: The CAN sample included 2,111 children having a CMR ≤ age 3, suggestive of a harmful early childhood context. The AFDC sample included 1,923 children having AFDC but no CMR ≤ age 3, suggestive of early childhood protective factors despite poverty. <br><br>METHODS: We estimated the CMR likelihood at each age from 1-17 years based on various risk factors while following up children from 1995-2009. <br><br>RESULTS: During follow-up, CMR likelihoods were substantially higher for the CAN sample than for the AFDC sample. The age-CMR relationship was strongly negative for the CAN sample (OR = 0.87, 95% CI = 0.86-0.88). This relationship was weaker for the AFDC sample (OR = 0.92, 0.89-0.95) and became non-significant for children who exited welfare. Current welfare receipt remained a strong predictor of CMR likelihoods for both CAN (OR = 2.32, 1.98-2.71) and AFDC (OR = 2.08, 1.61-2.68) samples. Prior welfare receipt moderately increased CMR likelihoods among those not currently on welfare. Controlling for other risk factors, White children had the highest likelihood of CMR. Other child and parent level vulnerabilities also increased CMR risk over time. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: This study highlights the importance of longitudinal analytic approaches and the utility of cross-sector administrative data in improving our ability to understand and predict CMRs over time.<br><br>Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0145-2134
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104467
ID  - ref1
ER  -