title: The role of men in chronic supervisory neglect.
abstract: This study investigates whether parents' child care demand and resources, their capacity to provide adequate supervision, and their understanding of the supervision problem predict chronic supervisory neglect. A case-comparison design was used to compare families who had one isolated incident of supervisory neglect, who were involved with child protective services (CPS) because of a persistent supervision problem (2 years or less), and who were involved with CPS because of a chronic supervision problem (more than 2 years). When the mother's partner was not the father of her children or had a drug, alcohol, or mental health challenge, and when no one understood that there was a supervision problem or took responsibility for it, the problem was more likely to persist or become chronic. Therefore, when predicting whether a family will continue to provide inadequate supervision, it is important to also assess the mother's partner.
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, USA. carol.coohey@uiowa.edu
authors.forename: Carol
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Coohey
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D005220:Fathers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D016487:Parenting; D012380:Role; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control