ArticleChild maltreatment2024
What Does Child Protective Services Investigate as Neglect? A Population-Based Study.
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- Comparison of trends in CPS reports of child maltreatment and child maltreatment-related mortality across time, place and race/ethnicity.American journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Prenatal substance exposure and 5-year child protection outcomes among infants not reported at birth.PloS one · 2026Article
- Parenting through the eyes of mothers with substance use disorder: Implications for treatment and related services.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2025Article
- Who Should Respond to Substance-Exposed Infants? Reflections on U.S. Policies Limiting the Role of Child Protective Services.Child protection and practice · 2025Article
- Single-Parent Births in California: A Population-Based Examination of the Risk of Child Protective Services Involvement.Maternal and child health journal · 2025Article
- Do foster youth face harsher juvenile justice outcomes? Reinvestigating child welfare bias in juvenile justice processing.Criminology & public policy · 2025Article
- Using a Predictive Risk Model to Prioritize Families for Prevention Services: The Hello Baby Program in Allegheny County, PA.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Article
- Prevalence and Treatment of Maternal Substance Use Disorder in Child Welfare.JAMA health forum · 2025Article
- Beyond Child Abuse: The Array of Family Problems brought to the Child Welfare System.Journal of public child welfare · 2024Article
- Three-Year Custody Outcomes Among Infants Investigated by Child Protection Systems for Prenatal Substance Exposure in California.Maternal and child health journal · 2023Article
- The Impact of COVID-19 on Infant Maltreatment Emergency Department and Inpatient Medical Encounters.The Journal of pediatrics · 2023Article
- Foster Care Entry and Later Academic Achievement Among Infants Involved With Child Protective Services.Child developmentArticle
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Abstract
Most child protective services (CPS) investigations involve allegations of neglect. Broad and vague definitions have led to concerns that CPS-investigated neglect is driven by poverty-based material hardship. In a representative sample of 295 neglect investigations in California in 2017, structured data and narrative text fields were used to characterize the types of neglect and concurrent parental risk factors investigated by CPS and to assess the rate and nature of investigated physical neglect, defined as inadequate food, housing, or hygiene. The most common types of neglect were inadequate supervision (44%) and failure to protect (29%), followed by physical neglect (14%). Common risk factors identified in neglect investigations were parental substance use (41%), domestic violence (21%), mental illness (18%), and co-reported physical or sexual abuse (29%). Nearly all investigations of physical neglect (99%) included concerns related to substance use, domestic violence, mental illness, co-reported abuse or an additional neglect allegation (i.e., abandonment). Given concerns identified in neglect investigations, economic supports are likely insufficient without an array of behavioral-health supports.
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