Mental and behavioral health conditions are common among children and adolescents in
the United States. The purpose of this state-of the-art review article is to describe inequities …

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted multiple aspects of family life, including normative
tendencies for adolescents to establish independence from the family. This disruption has …

In this study, we use microsimulation methods to estimate the reduction in child protective
services (CPS) involvement resulting from implementation of three of the policy packages …

Importance Poverty has long been associated with a higher risk for child maltreatment, and
recent research suggests that income support policies are associated with reduced child …

Child protective services (CPS) contact occurs at substantially higher rates among Black
than White families. The present study considers systemic racism as a central driver of this …

Importance States in the US have the option to eliminate the asset test and/or increase the
income limit for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) eligibility under a policy …

Research on adverse childhood experiences is a vital part of the data-to-action link and the
development of evidence-based public health and violence prevention practice. Etiological …

Children in low socioeconomic status (SES) families are five times more likely to experience
child maltreatment relative to children in high SES families. To determine whether increasing …

Pediatricians have always seen the value of preventing health harms; this should be no less
true for child maltreatment than for disease or unintentional injuries. Research continues to …

We estimate the effects of cash transfers on a severe measure of child welfare: maltreatment.
To do so, we leverage year-to-year household variation from a universal and unconditional …