What kind of “poverty” predicts CPS contact: Income, material hardship, and differences among racialized groups

Margaret M.C. Thomas and Jane Waldfogel

Children and Youth Services Review, 2022, vol. 136, issue C

Abstract: Child protective services (CPS) contact is consistently linked with poverty in the US, and empirical evidence is mounting to indicate that disparate exposure to income poverty explains a substantial portion of racial inequities in CPS involvement. Evidence about the different distributions of income poverty and material hardship also suggests that income poverty may not sufficiently capture economic wellbeing among families. This paper assessed whether differences in exposure to income poverty and/or material hardship explain racial inequities in CPS contact and further examined whether income poverty and material hardship predict CPS contact differently within racialized groups.

Keywords: Poverty; Material hardship; CPS contact; Racial inequity; Economic wellbeing; Racial disparity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2022.106400

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