You Think, I Think, But What Do We Think? Perceptions of Child Maltreatment among Afro-Caribbean Parents and Child Welfare Workers in Alberta
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Abstract
There is limited global research into what one group perceives another group is thinking about child maltreatment; whether there is congruence or incongruence in these perceptions and whether this impacts the child maltreatment decision-making process. The primary objective of this study was to understand the meaning of child maltreatment for Afro-Caribbean parents and child welfare workers as well as the experiences that have informed these views. In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight parents and six child welfare workers in Calgary. Findings were interpreted and discussed using an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) approach. The dual lens of co-orientation theory and critical race theory provided the theoretical foundation for this research. Findings indicate that both parents and child welfare workers rely on multiple factors to inform their understanding of child maltreatment. Both identify the importance of the law as well as socio-cultural norms as gateways through which they define child maltreatment. However, the process of operationalisation of these and other factors is different for each participant and represents the areas of incongruence between parents and child welfare workers. To frame the meaning of child maltreatment, parents rely on their recollection and understanding of how they were raised. They also visualise an expected outcome for their children, framed within the context of their perception of what is required to achieve that desired outcome within the existing environment. The perception that parents have emigrated from countries with little or no laws related to child maltreatment was noted by some child welfare workers. Yet, as immigrants, many of these same parents feel they continue to operate with limited information or guidelines related to appropriate parenting. These findings demonstrate the need for improved educational supports for members of this population on child maltreatment within Canada and additional research on the experiences of ethnic minorities within the child welfare system. It also reinforces the need for focus on anti-black racism training for child welfare workers and highlights the need to address inconsistencies in child maltreatment legislation and guidelines.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".