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Maricopa County, Arizona Study of Child Maltreatment Risk Among Adolescent Mothers, 1976-1978

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Title Maricopa County, Arizona Study of Child Maltreatment Risk Among Adolescent Mothers, 1976-1978
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/5XAQ1L
 
Creator Frank G. Bolton Jr.
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description The purpose of this study was to determine whether the incidence of child maltreatment was higher among natural children born to adolescent mothers, compared to that obtained for children born to post-adolescent women. Data are based on the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse Central registry form. The form collects details on all children and parents in the family in which abuse or neglect is suspected, and the role played by each parent and/or child. Topics include age, gender, ethnicity and relationship of household members, stress factors in home, role of parent/child/perpetrator, marital status, whether or not abuse or neglect was substantiated. A random sample of 5,098 observations was drawn from the child maltreatment cases referred to the Maricopa County unit of the Arizona Department of Economic Security's Child Protective Services between January 1, 1976 and December 31, 1978. This sample represented one-half of the cases referred to the Maricopa County unit. The county sample was taken from an alphabetical file, by family name of the adult as reported from the National Clearing house on Child Abuse (NCCNA) Central Registry form. The sample included 247 (4.9%) cases with incomplete information. A "working sample" of 4,851 cases was based onc ases that included complete information on mother's and oldest child's age. The DAAPP data file contains all
5,098 cases to facilitate utilization of all cases when variables other than mother's and oldest child's age are being analyzed.
 
Date 1980
 
Contributor University of California. Los Angeles. Social Science Data Archive
 
Type Administrative records