Literature review on child abuse
The nis-3 further revealed that the incidence of child maltreatment in families with annual incomes under $15,000 is 47 per 1,000, while the incidence falls to 2 cases per 1,000 in families with annual incomes above $30,000. In addition, a significant number of abused children display intellectual, social, and psychological dysfunction which may have resulted from injuries sustained from previous abuse.
Across all sites, an overwhelming majority of participants at all levels cited poverty, and poverty-related circumstances, as primary reasons for the over-representation of minority children in the child welfare system. In 50% of the children reassessed, there were indications of physical abuse and negligence, such as triggering of femoral fractures.
The hospital's social assistance team was put into action and, concomitantly, the guardianship the fourth day of hospitalization, the orthopedic team was asked to provide an interdisciplinary consultation regarding the child's case, because of bilateral edema on the thighs and because the child was crying a lot if its legs were detailed orthopedic examination, with imaging examinations, it was determined that the child presented bilateral subtrochanteric femoral fractures associated with a unilateral humeral fracture in the left arm (figs. Specifically, the percentage of african-american children who enter the system and remain in out-of-home care is greater than their proportion of the country's population (anderson, 1997).
The pattern of non-accidental injuries consists mainly of metaphyseal lesions, multiple fractures at different stages of consolidation, fractures of posterior ribs and fractures of long bones in children under the age of two res of the long bones in very young children may represent one of the main pieces of evidence of physical abuse. This results in a greater number of children of color coming into the child welfare system.
To examine this issue further, the federal government funds the national incidence study (nis), which is an attempt to provide a more accurate estimate of the incidence of child abuse and neglect by including in its sample, children who were investigated by child protective service (cps) agencies, children screened out by cps without investigation, and children seen by community professionals who were not reported to cps. While the former predicts the several environmental factors significantly related to child abuse and the latter explains the significant findings associated with the perpetrator, neither theory provides an explanation of the role of the child abuse victim.
The greater incidence of maltreatment among low-income families combined with the over-representation of families of color living in poverty suggests a plausible explanation for the disproportional representation of minority children in the child welfare bias and child welfare decision argue that the disproportionate representation of minority children in the child welfare system is a result of differential treatment by race or racial bias (morton, 1999). However, in cases of substance-exposed infants, caucasian workers did substantiate a larger percent of cases involving preservation and gh there have been few studies examining racial disparities in family preservation services, the available evidence suggests racial discrepancies in decisions to maintain children of color in their homes or to return them to their families of origin.
In the case presented here, the mother and the newborn were not a systematic review on 32 studies, kemp et al. These steps to email a friend or colleague a link to this en of color in the child welfare system: perspectives from the child welfare ding to concerns about the over-representation of minority children in the child welfare system, particularly african-american children, the children's bureau sponsored an exploratory qualitative study of the child welfare system's response to children of color.
However, research has demonstrated that not all maltreated children are reported and not all reported children are maltreated. Finally, the study is intended to identify the types of services the field believes are needed to reduce the number of children of color in the child welfare material may be freely reproduced and distributed.
These findings suggest that the overrepresentation of african-american children in the child welfare system is not attributable to higher rates of maltreatment in this population, but to factors related to the child welfare system itself. These cases need to be managed by a multidisciplinary team because of the high risk of recurrence of possible death among these children.
In addition, minority children who are free for adoption may remain in foster care longer than caucasian children because they are less likely to be adopted. Thus, this type of fracture in this age group should signal that this lesion is not accidental, as in our diagnosing battered child syndrome, physicians need to be cautious and make differential diagnoses, particularly with the following pathological conditions: osteogenesis imperfecta, congenital insensitivity to pain, scurvy, congenital syphilis, caffey's disease, multiple fractures of severe rickets, hypophosphatemia, leukemia, metatarsal neuroblastoma, sequelae of osteomyelitis and septic arthritis.
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The literature on abuse among newborns is sparse and there are few studies on children under the age of one res are the second commonest presentation of this condition and orthopedists are often the first physician to evaluate these children. Similarly, the implementation of a child welfare system reform initiative reduced racial disparities in north carolina.
Their position affords them a unique perspective on the issue that should be included in any discussion of the child welfare system's response to children of current study seeks to address this gap in the literature by exploring child welfare professionals' perceptions of the issue of over-representation. However, white children were more likely to be investigated in cases of sexual abuse, and children of color were more likely to be investigated in cases of physical abuse and neglect.
Child welfare workers and managers, who are involved in day-to-day decision-making for children of all races at all points on the child welfare service continuum, are an important and untapped source of information about this phenomenon. Neither a sociocultural or a psychodynamic theory of child abuse effectively relates and explains all the significant findings of the literature review.
Reported that black children had higher rates of non-accidental lesions than did white children of the same age group, but also reported that those children were more likely to the evaluated and registered due to suspicion of abuse, thus showing that ethnic difference exist in assessment and communication of pediatric fractures due to child abuse. Because reunification is less likely for children in kinship care, african-american children may remain in the child welfare system longer than children of other races (ards, chung, & myers, 1999; terling, 1999; everett, 1999).
