An up‐to‐date and accurate picture of the evidence on the impact of poverty is a necessary
element of the debate about the future direction of children's social care services …

Background Homelessness has been associated with multiple detrimental health outcomes
across observational studies. However, relatively few randomized controlled trials (RCTs) …

Abstract Background and Purpose Child protective services (CPS) contact is consistently
linked with poverty in the US, and empirical evidence is mounting to indicate that disparate …

Child abuse and neglect in the home is a prevalent and significant issue in Australia. Recent
findings from the Australian Child Maltreatment Study revealed that 62.2 per cent of …

Specialized literature points consistently to the relevance of parental stress in parenting
practices and in the risk of child abuse. At the same time, it is known that socioeconomic …

Background Millions of mothers with young children in the US struggle to afford basic needs.
Material hardships such as inadequate food, housing, and medical care increase risk for …

OBJECTIVES To examine whether postneonatal infants reported for maltreatment face a
heightened risk of deaths attributable to medical causes. METHODS Birth and death records …

Child maltreatment is a critical public health problem whose structural underpinnings
underscore the need to move prevention efforts from individual-level risk factors to social …

Little evidence informs the relationship between housing insecurity and employment for
working mothers. The present study aimed to identify variation in work schedules and …

A comprehensive overview of all studied individual, relational, community, and societal risk
factors that precede severe physical child abuse is critical to inform preventive efforts. All …