Summary Jane Waldfogel, Terry-Ann Craigie, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn review recent
studies that use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) to …

Summary Deborah Daro and Kenneth Dodge observe that efforts to prevent child abuse
have historically focused on directly improving the skills of parents who are at risk for or …

OBJECTIVES: To present new estimates of the average lifetime costs per child maltreatment
victim and aggregate lifetime costs for all new child maltreatment cases incurred in 2008 …

Research has consistently demonstrated that children living in low-income families,
particularly those in poverty, are at a greater risk of child maltreatment; however, causal …

The notion of an average expectable environment for promoting normal development
proposes that there are species‐specific ranges of environmental conditions that elicit …

Child protection work inevitably involves uncertainty, ambiguity and fallibility. The
knowledge base is limited, predictions about the child's future welfare are imperfect, and …

Using both historical and contemporary contexts, The Child Welfare Challenge examines
major policy practice and research issues as they jointly shape child welfare practice and its …

A strong association between poverty and child neglect has been established, but the
mechanisms that explain this relationship have not been clearly articulated. This research …

This paper uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to explore the effects of
income, family structure, and public policies on several indicators of child maltreatment …

Child protection is one of the most high profile and challenging areas of social work, as well
as one where children's lives and family life are seen to be at stake. Vital as child protection …