@article{ref1,
title="The link between male employment and child maltreatment in the U.S., 2000-2012",
journal="Children and youth services review",
year="2016",
author="Cherry, Robert and Wang, Chun",
volume="66",
number="",
pages="117-122",
abstract="Child maltreatment rates are strongly linked to adult male behavior, suggesting that labor market conditions, by influencing male behaviors, can influence maltreatment rates. Using the unemployment rate as the sole measure of labor market conditions, past studies generally conclude that employment conditions do not systematically influence child maltreatment rates. By contrast, this study found that state-level child maltreatment rates were statistically significant and inversely related to the state-level employment rates of men, aged 20 to 34 years old. It also found that the interaction of child poverty and living in a single-parent household is positively related to child maltreatment rates. Policies to reduce employment problems are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0190-7409",
doi="10.1016/j.childyouth.2016.05.008",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2016.05.008"
}