ArticleJournal of family social work2018
The Impact of Housing Instability on Child Maltreatment: A Causal Investigation.
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- Child Maltreatment During COVID-19: Key Conclusions and Future Directions Based on a Systematic Literature Review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2023Pooled it
- Association of Housing Stress With Child Maltreatment: A Systematic Review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2022Pooled it
- Social determinants of health and child maltreatment: a systematic review.Pediatric research · 2021Pooled it
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- Can Risk Factors and Opportunities to Be Observed Explain Why Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Children Have Less Child Protection Contact?Journal of paediatrics and child health · 2025Article
- Stress About Eviction or Loss of Housing and Child Mental Health.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- The long-term effects of housing insecurity in young adulthood on subsequent material hardship, physiological and mental health.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025Article
- Maternal, prenatal and postnatal risk factors for early child physical abuse: a French nationwide cohort study.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2024Article
- Are Home Evictions Associated with Child Welfare System Involvement? Empirical Evidence from National Eviction Records and Child Protective Services Data.Child maltreatment · 2024Article
- Child maltreatment during the COVID-19 pandemic: implications for child and adolescent mental health.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2024Review
- Emerging adult college students' descriptions of exposure to childhood emotional abuse and associated factors: A qualitative exploration.Child abuse & neglect · 2023Article
- The experience of the COVID-19 pandemic for families of infants involved with Child Protection Services for maltreatment concerns.Health & social care in the community · 2022Article
- Drivers of Inequalities among Families Involved with Child Welfare Services: A General Overview.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Pathways from Food and Housing Insecurity to Adolescent Behavior Problems: The Mediating Role of Parenting Stress.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2022Article
- Parental Social Isolation and Child Maltreatment Risk during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of family violence · 2022Article
- That Which is Essential has been Made Invisible: The Need to Bring a Structural Risk Perspective to Reduce Racial Disproportionality in Child Welfare.Race and social problems · 2021Article
- Childhood homelessness, resilience, and adolescent mental health: A prospective, person-centered approach.Psychology in the schools · 2020Article
- Risk and protective factors for child maltreatment: A review.Current epidemiology reports · 2020Article
- Harsh physical punishment as a mediator between income, re-reports and out-of-home placement in a child protective services-involved population.Children and youth services review · 2019Article
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Abstract
More than a half million children are confirmed as victims of maltreatment by the child welfare system each year. Children from unstably housed families are over-represented in child mal-treatment reports, and a growing body of evidence links housing problems to maltreatment and Child Protective Services (CPS); investigation. The present study applies two propensity score analysis approaches-greedy matching and propensity score weighting-to data from the Fragile Families and Child Well-being Study to move toward a causal explanation of child mal-treatment behaviors among mothers in low-income households. Utilizing two separate methods to correct for overt selection bias, the present study finds that housing instability leads to a small increase in maltreatment behaviors, yet this small positive net impact on child maltreatment does not fully explain the over-representation of unstably housed families in the child welfare system. Families experiencing housing problems likely have a range of needs that require earlier, targeted intervention to mitigate consequences of poverty, domestic violence, and maternal depression. Child welfare services should invest resources in housing assistance programs in-house as well as through partnerships with local public housing authorities to stabilize families, reduce housing-related strain on caregivers, and promote family preservation.
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