The link between male employment and child maltreatment in the U.S., 2000–2012

Robert Cherry and Chun Wang

Children and Youth Services Review, 2016, vol. 66, issue C, 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 34yrs 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.

Keywords: Child maltreatment rates; Male employment rates; Poverty; Single headed households (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2016.05.008

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