Child welfare services involvement among the children of young parents in foster care
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Amy Dworsky
- Source
- Child Abuse & Neglect. 45:68-79
- Subject
- Adult
Male
Parents
Child abuse
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Databases, Factual
media_common.quotation_subject
Child Welfare
Poison control
Suicide prevention
Occupational safety and health
Foster Home Care
Neglect
Young Adult
Pregnancy
Risk Factors
Injury prevention
Developmental and Educational Psychology
medicine
Humans
Child Abuse
Parent-Child Relations
Psychiatry
Proportional Hazards Models
media_common
business.industry
Adult Survivors of Child Abuse
Sex Offenses
Infant
Human factors and ergonomics
Psychiatry and Mental health
Foster care
Child, Preschool
Pregnancy in Adolescence
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Female
Illinois
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 0145-2134
Despite the high rate of early parenthood among youth in foster care as well as the increased risk of child maltreatment among children whose adolescent parents have been neglected or abused, very little is known about child welfare services involvement among children whose parents were in foster care when they were born. This study uses administrative data from the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) to examine the occurrence of child abuse and neglect investigations, indicated reports and out of home care placements among the children of youth in foster. Thirty-nine percent of the children were the subject of at least one CPS investigation, 17 percent had at least one indicated report and 11 percent were placed in out of home care at least once before their 5th birthday. Cox proportional hazard models are also estimated to identify characteristics of parenting foster youth and their placement histories associated with the risk of child welfare services involvement. Implications of the findings for policy and practice are discussed.