@article{ref1,
title="Co-reporting of child maltreatment and intimate partner violence: the likelihood of substantiations and foster care placements",
journal="Child maltreatment",
year="2021",
author="Rebbe, Rebecca and Eastman, Andrea Lane and Adhia, Avanti and Foust, Regan and Putnam-Hornstein, Emily",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Intimate partner violence (IPV) negatively affects children. Although IPV-related reports frequently come to the attention of child protective services (CPS), there is neither a unified standard for how CPS systems should respond, nor sufficient research documenting that reaction. The current study used population-based administrative records from California to assess how CPS responds to reported allegations of IPV, with and without physical abuse and/or neglect allegations. We used multinomial regression to model the likelihood of investigation outcomes. <br><br>RESULTS indicate that 20.7% of CPS reports had IPV alleged during hotline screening, and of those, just 3.2% were screened out compared to 20.2% for reports where IPV was not alleged. Almost half (45.5%) of IPV-alleged reports came from law enforcement, in contrast to 15.2% of reports that did not allege IPV. IPV-alleged reports were more likely to have allegations substantiated without a case opened for services, but less likely to result in foster care placements. Several statistically significant differences were identified by the type of alleged maltreatment co-reported with IPV. This study contributes to an understanding of how CPS responds to IPV-alleged reports.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1077-5595",
doi="10.1177/10775595211007205",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10775595211007205"
}