ArticleChildren and youth services review2021
The neglected ones: Time at home during COVID-19 and child maltreatment.
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- Home, but Left Alone: Time at Home and Child Abuse and Neglect During COVID-19.Journal of family issues · 2023Article
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- Parental Social Isolation and Child Maltreatment Risk during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of family violence · 2022Article
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- Experiences With COVID-19 Stressors and Parents' Use of Neglectful, Harsh, and Positive Parenting Practices in the Northeastern United States.Child maltreatment · 2021Article
- Modelling the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on violent discipline against children.Child abuse & neglect · 2021Article
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Abstract
The early months of the COVID-19 pandemic led to extreme social isolation, precarious employment and job loss, working from home while tending to children, and limited access to public services. The confluence of these factors likely affects child health and well-being. We combine early release child maltreatment reports in Indiana with unique and newly available mobile phone movement data to better understand the relationship between staying at home intensively during the COVID-19 pandemic and child maltreatment. Our findings indicate that the prolonged stays at home promoted by the early public health response to COVID-19 resulted in reductions in child maltreatment reports overall and substantiated reports of maltreatment. However, relative to areas that stayed home less, children in areas that stayed home more were more likely to be both reported for and a confirmed victim of maltreatment, particularly neglect. These areas have historically been socioeconomically advantaged and experienced lower rates of maltreatment. We only observe increases in confirmed child maltreatment in metropolitan counties, suggesting that the effects of staying home on child maltreatment may reflect both the differential risk of leaving home and access to services in metropolitan-rather than non-metropolitan-counties. Staying at home has been challenging for many families. Families likely need assistance as the pandemic persists, evolves, and when it ends.
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