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ArticleJournal of social service research2026

Family Safety Nets and Child Outcomes of Families Involved with the U.S. Child Welfare System.

Lenore M McWey, Qiong Wu, Melissa Radey, Ming Cui

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Article in Journal of social service research, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Lenore M McWeyDepartment of Human Development and Family Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.ORCID 0000-0003-0642-7841
Qiong WuDepartment of Human Development and Family Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.ORCID 0000-0002-4812-1181
Melissa RadeyCollege of Social Work, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.ORCID 0000-0002-9058-0349
Ming CuiDepartment of Human Development and Family Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.ORCID 0000-0002-3669-3473

Funding

Parents’ Safety Nets, Child Protective Services Involvement, and Child OutcomesR03HD111678 · NICHD · FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI MCWEY, LENORE M. · 2024 to 2024
$154k
NICHD NIH HHS R03 HD111678
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A strong safety net, comprised of formal and informal supports, promotes wellbeing among low-income families, and these supports can operate synergistically. Despite the known potential power of safety nets to help families in times of need, research on what safety nets look like among families in the child welfare system (CWS) is lacking. Informed by the family stress model and with a nationally representative dataset of families involved with the CWS (

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child mental healthchild protective serviceschild welfare systempublic assistancesafety netssocial support

Identifiers

PMID42741739
PMCPMC13573829

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