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- Title
Understanding Risk and Protective Factors for Maternal Maltreatment: A Population-Based Comparative Analysis.
- Authors
Kuluk, Aydan; Allard, Troy; Stewart, Anna
- Abstract
This prospective population-based study explored whether mothers who maltreat had different risk and protective factors than mothers who don't including the mother's age when they had their first child, the number of births, marital status, whether the mothers were maltreated as a child and race. This study used data from the Queensland Cross-sector Research Collaboration (QCRC) repository, which included 18,019 mothers born in Queensland during 1983 or 1984 who were aged between 30 or 31 years at the time of data extraction. Mothers were categorised as maltreating (n = 998) or non-maltreating (n = 17,021) based on whether they had substantiated contact with the child protection system, and differences in risk/protective factors were explored. Results indicated that mothers who maltreat were more likely than mothers who don't to have their first child at a younger age, significantly more children, less likely to be married, more likely to be Indigenous, and more likely to have experienced childhood maltreatment. Implications for policy and practice are discussed, including the need for culturally appropriate home visitation programmes and parenting programmes to reduce the likelihood of child maltreatment perpetration. Highlights: The Queensland population-based, longitudinal linked administrative dataset was used to create a comparison groups of mothers who maltreat and those who don't. There were significant differences between the two groups based on the risk/protective factors associated with whether there was child maltreatment across the lifecourse. The results showed significant correlations among all risk/protective factors associated with child maltreatment across the lifecourse. The strongest predictor of child maltreatment perpetration was the mother's history of maltreatment victimisation.
- Subjects
QUEENSLAND; MOTHER-child relationship; PROTECTIVE factors; CHILD abuse; RISK; MATERNAL age; CHILDBIRTH; MARITAL status; RACE; INDIGENOUS Australians; PREVENTION of child abuse; ADVERSE childhood experiences; AGE distribution; PSYCHOLOGY of mothers; RISK assessment; MOTHERHOOD; PARENTING; COMPARATIVE studies; CHILD welfare; PSYCHOLOGY of adult child abuse victims
- Publication
Journal of Child & Family Studies, 2021, Vol 30, Issue 11, p2744
- ISSN
1062-1024
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10826-021-02017-y