Explaining Black-White Disparity in Maltreatment: Poverty, Female-Headed Families, and Urbanization

Autor/in	Schuck, Amie M.
Titel	Explaining Black-White Disparity in Maltreatment: Poverty, Female-Headed Families, and Urbanization
Quelle	In: Journal of Marriage and Family, 67 (2005) 3, S.543-551 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-2445
DOI	10.1111/j.1741-3737.2005.00152.x
Schlagwörter	Race; African American Children; Poverty; Counties; Child Abuse; Child Welfare; Florida + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rasse; Abstammung; African Americans; Child; Children; Afroamerikaner; Kind; Kinder; Armut; Abuse of children; Abuse; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Kindeswohl
Abstract	The purpose of the current study was to assess a structural level explanation of racial disparity in child maltreatment. Using data from Florida counties (1998-2001) and the 2000 census, the effects of poverty, concentrated poverty, and female-headed families in poverty on Black, White, and the difference between Black-White rates of child maltreatment were assessed (N=67). Results suggested that the structural covariates of maltreatment vary by race and that differences in female-headed families in poverty can explain some, but not all, of the Black-White racial disparity in child maltreatment. Increasing programs that focus on reducing poverty among female-headed Black families and the exposure of Black families to concentrated poverty should decrease some of the overrepresentation of Black children in the child welfare system. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10