Child Welfare Involvement Among Children in Homeless Families

From: Child Welfare | Date: September 1, 2004| Author: Brodbar, Gabriel; Culhane, Dennis P; Metraux, Stephen; Park, Jung Min | Copyright information

An analysis of 8,251 homeless children in New York City found that 18% of them received child welfare services over the five-year period following their first shelter admission, and an additional 6% had a history of having received such services before their first shelter admission. Recurrent use of public shelters, exposure to domestic violence, older age at first episode of homelessness, and larger number of children in a household were associated with an increased risk of child welfare inv...

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