Socioeconomic correlates of rates of child maltreatment in small communities.
This study expands the research on neighborhood effects and child maltreatment by examining the structural conditions, including religion and nationality, in small towns in Israel. The results are compared with those in inner-city and suburban neighborhoods in Western countries. Five community structural variables were statistically correlated with investigated cases of child maltreatment: adults' unemployment rate, rate of new immigrants, rate of children in single-parent families, population gain or loss, and the community's location in relation to a central city. A multivariate regression analysis of these variables explained 44% of the variance.
Ben-Arieh
Asher
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Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, Hebrew University, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel. benarieh@cc.huji.ac.il
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007557:Israel / Q000453:epidemiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012111:Residence Characteristics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D020954:Single-Parent Family / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012937:Social Mobility / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014478:Unemployment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D055815:Young Adult