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- Title
Cumulative Rates of Child Protection Involvement and Terminations of Parental Rights in a California Birth Cohort, 1999-2017.
- Authors
Putnam-Hornstein, Emily; Ahn, Eunhye; Prindle, John; Magruder, Joseph; Webster, Daniel; Wildeman, Christopher
- Abstract
Objectives. To document the cumulative childhood risk of different levels of involvement with the child protection system (CPS), including terminations of parental rights (TPRs). Methods. We linked vital records for California's 1999 birth cohort (n = 519 248) to CPS records from 1999 to 2017. We used sociodemographic information captured at birth to estimate differences in the cumulative percentage of children investigated, substantiated, placed in foster care, and with a TPR. Results. Overall, 26.3% of children were investigated for maltreatment, 10.5% were substantiated, 4.3% were placed in foster care, and 1.1% experienced a TPR. Roughly 1 in 2 Black and Native American children were investigated during childhood. Children receiving public insurance experienced CPS involvement at more than twice the rate of children with private insurance. Conclusions. Findings provide a lower-bound estimate of CPS involvement and extend previous research by documenting demographic differences, including in TPRs.
- Subjects
SOCIOECONOMIC factors; CHILD welfare; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; PARENTS; FOSTER home care
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 2021, Vol 111, Issue 6, p1157
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.2021.306214