黑料社 one-third of mothers in California were reported to the Child Protection System (CPS) at least once, but the percentage significantly increased as the number of children grew, finds a new analysis from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.
Most mothers who were reported to CPS had their initial report after their second child鈥檚 birth, said聽Eunhye Ahn, an assistant professor and author of 鈥�,鈥� published Sept. 6 in the journal Child Maltreatment.
Ahn and her co-authors analyzed 20 years of data on more than 194,000 mothers in California and argued that policies need a focus beyond the individual children.
鈥淔amily-focused interventions are essential, especially for larger families with socioeconomic factors like public health insurance use; and racial and ethnic disparities are significantly associated with CPS reporting patterns,鈥� she said. 鈥淭he research emphasizes the need for more nuanced and sustained interventions that address the chronic and recurring nature of child maltreatment across entire families, rather than concentrating solely on individual children or isolated incidents.鈥�