California's Most Vulnerable Parents: When Maltreated Children Have Children

This report takes an in-depth look at the intersection between teen births, child maltreatment, and involvement with the child protection system. Putnam-Hornstein, along with other researchers at USC and the University of California, Berkeley, linked and then analyzed roughly 1.5 million California birth records and 1 million CPS records, with a second phase of research focusing on the maltreatment risk of children born to adolescent mothers.In 2012, California became one of the first states in the nation to extend foster youth status until age 21. Different programs and services will likely be required to adequately respond to the needs and circumstances of non-minor youth who remain in the foster care system, particularly in the area of parenting supports. This report finds that as many as one in three female youth in California may be parenting by the time they exit the foster care system on their 21st birthday

La abolición de la esclavitud en Hispanoamérica y Brasil : Nuevos aportes y debates historiográficos [Recurso electrónico]

Los esfuerzos de los esclavos en pos de la abolición en Ecuador / Camilla Townsend. El final de la esclavitud y el final del imperio: la emancipación de los esclavos en Cuba y Puerto Rico / Christopher Schmidt-Nowara. La abolición de la trata de esclavos en Brasil en 1850: historiografía, acción esclava y el arte de estadista / Jeffrey Needell. La abolición en el Brasil: Movimientos sociales y políticos en el sudeste cafetalero / María Helena Pereira Toledo Machado. La decadencia del plantador progresista y el auge del agente subalterno: Cambios en las narrativas de la emancipación de los esclavos en el Brasil / Barbara Weinstei

Predictors of child protective service contact between birth and age five: An examination of California's 2002 birth cohort

This study utilizes population-level birth data to describe those children who may be at greatest risk of maltreatment during the first five years of life. Based on a unique dataset constructed by linking California's administrative child welfare data to statewide vital birth records, a cohort study design was employed to track reports of maltreatment involving children born in 2002. Twelve variables captured in the birth record were selected for analysis. Generalized Linear Models were used to estimate adjusted risk ratios (RR) for each independent variable. Predicted probabilities of CPS contact were computed based on the count of risk factors present at birth. Results suggest that many of the associations previously observed between birth variables and subsequent maltreatment have sustained value in foretelling which children will be reported to CPS beyond infancy. Of the 531,035 children born in California in 2002, 14% (74,182) were reported for possible maltreatment before the age of five. Eleven of the twelve birth variables examined presented as significant predictors of contact with child protective services.Child Welfare Child Maltreatment Birth Cohort Risk Assessment Racial Disparities