This report identifies and discusses evidence about t o key aspects of the relationship bet
een poverty and child abuse and neglect: the impact of poverty on a child's chance of being …

Objectives Children who have been maltreated are at increased risk of further maltreatment.
Identification of those at highest risk of further maltreatment is a priority for professionals …

Existing research on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth
homelessness identifies family rejection as a main pathway into homelessness for the youth …

In recent decades, social work and other social science research disciplines have become
increasingly reliant on large secondary data sets, which have increased in both number and …

OBJECTIVE: To help professionals identify factors that place families at risk for future child
maltreatment, to facilitate necessary services and to potentially help prevent abuse and …

This is the authoritative presentation of Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up (ABC), the
widely disseminated, evidence-based home-visiting intervention for parents of infants who …

This study prospectively examines the transition from the child welfare system into the
juvenile justice system among 10,850 maltreated children and adolescents and explores …

We examined the associations between exposure to interpersonal violence in childhood
and risk for obesity and central adiposity. Interpersonal violence is defined as behaviour that …

Objective We estimated cumulative probabilities of onset and recurrences of child
maltreatment reports from birth to age 11 years. Estimates were provided overall and within …

We utilize intersectionality as the framework for analyzing and critiquing the literature on the
intergenerational transmission of trauma in early childhood. In particular, we assess the …