title: Child welfare services involvement among the children of young parents in foster care.
abstract: Despite the high rate of early parenthood among youth in foster care as well as the increased risk of child maltreatment among children whose adolescent parents have been neglected or abused, very little is known about child welfare services involvement among children whose parents were in foster care when they were born. This study uses administrative data from the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) to examine the occurrence of child abuse and neglect investigations, indicated reports and out of home care placements among the children of youth in foster. Thirty-nine percent of the children were the subject of at least one CPS investigation, 17 percent had at least one indicated report and 11 percent were placed in out of home care at least once before their 5th birthday. Cox proportional hazard models are also estimated to identify characteristics of parenting foster youth and their placement histories associated with the risk of child welfare services involvement. Implications of the findings for policy and practice are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Chapin Hall at The University of Chicago, 1313 E. 60th St. Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
authors.forename: Amy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dworsky
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D054523:Adult Survivors of Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002669:Child Welfare / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005260:Female; D005581:Foster Home Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007087:Illinois; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents; D011247:Pregnancy; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016016:Proportional Hazards Models; D012307:Risk Factors; D012742:Sex Offenses / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Adolescent parents; Child abuse and neglect; Child welfare; Out of home care placement; Parenting youth in foster care