Background Every year a large number of children around the world are removed from their
homes because they are maltreated. Child welfare agencies are responsible for placing …

Violence within families and child neglect are strikingly common: 700,000 children are found
to be victims of abuse or neglect in the United States each year; over the course of …

Little is known about the effects of placing children who are abused or neglected into foster
care. This paper uses the placement tendency of child protection investigators as an …

Although a broad range of programmes for prevention of child maltreatment exist, the
effectiveness of most of the programmes is unknown. Two specific home-visiting …

OBJECTIVE: Children who are physically maltreated are at risk of a range of adverse
outcomes in childhood and adulthood, but some children who are maltreated manage to …

Child Maltreatment, Third Edition, by Cindy Miller-Perrin and Robin Perrin, is a thoroughly
updated new edition of the first textbook for undergraduate students and beginning graduate …

This study used data on 2,453 children aged 4–17 from the National Survey of Child and
Adolescent Well‐Being and 5 analytic methods that adjust for selection factors to estimate …

This study examines the prevalence and correlates of heightened posttraumatic stress (PTS)
symptoms in a nationally representative sample of 1,848 children and adolescents (ages 8 …

Institutions are not necessarily good environments for children. In the face of challenges
such as HIV, Ebola, poverty, conflict and disaster the numbers have grown rather than …

This paper describes the use of instrumental-variables (IV) to estimate causal effects of
foster care on long-and short-term outcomes. This estimation strategy provides a tool to …