Bryn King

TL;DR: This analysis indicates that adjusting for child and family-level risk factors is necessary to distinguish race-specific effects (which may reflect system, worker, or resource biases) from socioeconomic and health indicators associated with maltreatment risk.

TL;DR: For teenage mothers in California, population-level estimates of the relationship between maternal history of maltreatment and next-generation abuse and neglect and multivariable survival models examined the association between a teenage mother's CPS involvement and child maltreatment, after adjusting for a range of sociodemographic variables.

TL;DR: Findings demonstrated that children whose allegations were reported by law enforcement, medical professionals, and workers in public agencies were consistently substantiated at higher rates than allegations from other mandated reporters.

TL;DR: Examining decision-making among workers investigating Black and White families investigated for child protection concerns in Ontario, Canada indicates that Black children were more likely to be investigated than White children, but there was little evidence to suggest that workers in Ontario child welfare agencies made the decision to substantiate, transfer to ongoing services, or place the child in out-of-home care based on race alone.

TL;DR: Calculated cross-sectional birth rate estimates for 15- to 17-year-old girls who were in foster care during each year from 2006 to 2010, characterizing the placement-related experiences and timing of births indicated that although only a small number of 15-to-17-year old girls in foster Care gave birth each year, their birth rate was somewhat higher than the rate observed in the general population.