Highlights•We reviewed empirical studies informed by the Family Stress Model
framework.•We found general empirical support for the Family Stress Model among diverse …

Economically insecure children experience 3–9 times more maltreatment than economically
secure children. Although economic insecurity is associated with child physical abuse …

Background Job loss resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic presents significant risk for
child abuse. Protective factors, such as reframing coping, may mitigate the risk of job loss on …

Background Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19)
has created an urgent need to identify child abuse and neglect (CAN) and efficiently allocate …

Background Heightened familial stress and distress during the COVID-19 pandemic may
lead to increased negative parenting practices, particularly for parents with substantial …

Research documents a link between poverty and child welfare involvement, but the nature of
this relationship is unclear. By providing in-depth accounts of situations leading to child …

Child maltreatment is a preventable public health problem. Research has demonstrated that
neighborhood structural factors (eg poverty, crime) can influence the proportion of a …

Families are impacted by a variety of risk and protective factors for maltreatment at multiple
levels of the social ecology. Individual-and neighborhood-level poverty has consistently …

The racial and ethnic disproportionality and disparity in the child protective system (CPS)
has been a concern for decades. Structural factors strongly influence engagement with the …

There are concerns that the recovery from the Great Recession in Europe has left growing
numbers of people facing precarious housing situations. Yet, to our knowledge, there is no …