Re: teen parents and child abuse statistics

[rbarth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rick Barth)]

The Robin Hood Foundation did a report on Kids Having Kids and there is a very
nice chapter in there, using IL data, that discusses the involvement in child
welfare services of children born to teenage parents.  It is the best longitudinal
study around.  The findings are persuasive that the risk of problems in parenting
for teens increases with time--making them a very important group to work with,
over a VERY LONG term and a very difficult group to study in the SHORT-term
because their problems take a while to manifest.

A synthesis of the report is available at http://www.robinhood.org/KHK.pdf.  The
Goerge and Joo Lee chapter is worth reading. I guess you can get it from the
Robinhood Foundation, but they sure aren't highlighting the full report on their
website (or at least I couldn't find it).  • The Robin Hood Foundation • 111
Broadway, 19th Floor • New York, NY 10006 

RIck

Richard P. Barth, Ph.D.
Frank A Daniels Professor and
Chair of the Doctoral Program
School of Social Work
301 Pittsboro Rd
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC  27599-3550
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From: "Shireen Boulos" <shireen_boulos@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:47:55 -0500
Subject: teen parents and child abuse statistics
To: Child Maltreatment Researchers   <CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu>
Reply-To: CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu

I am working on the Massachusetts Healthy Families Evaluation and we are 
looking for comparison data on child abuse and neglect and teen parents. 
Specifically, we are interested in answering the question: "What proportion 
of teenage parents are perpetrators of child abuse and neglect?"

Does anyone have data on this topic or suggestions of where to find this 
data?

Thank you.

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