Parental histories of childhood maltreatment and placement outcomes of children involved with child protective services
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Abstract
Childhood maltreatment (CM) is detrimental to the mental health and emotional health of children. Despite parental histories of CM being a well-documented risk factor for second-generation maltreatment and child protective services (CPS) involvement, past studies have failed to investigate the relationship between parental histories of CM and placement outcomes of children. This study examines the associations between forms of substantiated CM (neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological maltreatment, exposure to domestic violence) experienced by parents, and placement outcomes (presence of out-of-home placement, cumulative duration of placements, presence of an unsuccessful family reunification) of their CPS-involved children. CPS clinical-administrative data from Montréal on CM experiences and placement outcomes was extracted; 1742 children substantiated for CM with at least one parent that was also substantiated for CM in childhood were included. Cox, linear and logistic regression models were conducted to examine the relationships between parental histories of CM and the placement outcomes of children. A relationship was found between maternal histories of neglect and sexual abuse, and paternal histories of psychological abuse with the presence of placement. No significant relationships were found between parental histories of CM and the cumulative duration of placements and the presence of an unsuccessful reunification. Findings suggest that different forms of CM experienced by parents may distinctly be related to the placement outcomes of their children. This study informs intervention and prevention strategies aiming at supporting families where intergenerational continuity of CPS involvement is present. • Out-of-home placements can have harmful effects on the development of children. • Parental histories of CM are associated with the placement outcomes of children. • CPS caseworkers should consider parents' histories of CM in interventions.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, not a consensus.
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