Child Protection Responses to Domestic Violence Exposure: Co-Occurring Safety Concerns and Investigation Outcomes.

IF 4.5 2区社会学 Q1 FAMILY STUDIES Child Maltreatment Pub Date : 2024-11-14 DOI:10.1177/10775595241301085

Rebecca Rebbe, Bryan Victor, Stephanie Cuccaro-Alamin, Lindsey Palmer

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Childhood exposure to domestic violence (CEDV) poses significant risks to children's safety and wellbeing, yet its prevalence and impact on child protection outcomes remains understudied. This study examined administrative data for child protection investigations in Los Angeles County, California between January 2018 and March 2021 to determine the prevalence of CEDV safety concerns, associated case characteristics, and child protection outcomes (case openings and foster care placements). Results indicated that 5.9% of investigations had CEDV concerns and CEDV investigations represented 17.9% of placements. Investigations with CEDV concerns had higher co-occurring indicated safety concerns than investigations without, including substance abuse (31.1%) and mental health (14.2%). Investigation outcomes for those with CEDV concerns included the substantiation of more than one individual (36.6%), while 28.4% resulted in case openings (without placement) and 30.2% resulted in placements. The study underscores the importance of moving beyond punitive frameworks and exploring the use evidence-based service planning to address the complex needs of families affected by CEDV.

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儿童保护应对家庭暴力暴露：共同的安全问题和调查结果》（Co-Occurring Safety Concerns and Investigation Outcomes.

童年时期遭受家庭暴力（CEDV）对儿童的安全和福祉构成重大风险，但其发生率及其对儿童保护结果的影响仍未得到充分研究。本研究审查了加利福尼亚州洛杉矶县 2018 年 1 月至 2021 年 3 月期间儿童保护调查的行政数据，以确定 CEDV 安全问题的普遍性、相关案件特征和儿童保护结果（案件开庭和寄养安置）。结果显示，5.9% 的调查存在 CEDV 问题，CEDV 调查占安置的 17.9%。有 CEDV 问题的调查比没有 CEDV 问题的调查有更多的并发安全问题，包括药物滥用（31.1%）和精神健康（14.2%）。对有 CEDV 问题的调查的结果包括证实了不止一个人的情况（36.6%），28.4%的调查导致了案件的结案（无安置），30.2%的调查导致了安置。这项研究强调了超越惩罚性框架并探索使用循证服务规划来解决受 CEDV 影响的家庭的复杂需求的重要性。

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Child Maltreatment Multiple-

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期刊介绍： Child Maltreatment is the official journal of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC), the nation"s largest interdisciplinary child maltreatment professional organization. Child Maltreatment"s object is to foster professional excellence in the field of child abuse and neglect by reporting current and at-issue scientific information and technical innovations in a form immediately useful to practitioners and researchers from mental health, child protection, law, law enforcement, medicine, nursing, and allied disciplines. Child Maltreatment emphasizes perspectives with a rigorous scientific base that are relevant to policy, practice, and research.