from Part V - Parent Education, Intervention and Policy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 December 2022
The child welfare system is primarily designed to serve children who have been maltreated, a form of parenting that is arguably the most deleterious that children can experience. The latest national data indicate that there were 618,000 children in the U.S. Who were maltreated in 2020, at a rate of 8.4 per thousand children (Administration for Children and Families, 2020). Beyond being direct victims of child abuse and neglect, they may experience a multitude of environmental risks, including poverty, parental mental illness, parental substance use, and family and community violence (Hecht & Hansen, 2001; McKenzie et al., 2011). These contextual risks lead to a variety of adverse outcomes for maltreated children that span developmental domains (Jonson-Reid et al., 2012; Jones Harden et al., 2016; Toth & Manly, 2019). The features of the parenting that maltreated children experience may exacerbate or compensate for these contextual risks, and influence their short- and long-term developmental trajectories.
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