State support policies and children's living arrangements
Background: Many children in the United States live apart from their parents, in either formal or informal foster care, due to concerns about child abuse and neglect. Prior research has established a connection between poverty and child maltreatment, but many aspects of state support to families remain unexamined in relation to child living arrangements.
Objective: We test welfare access, welfare generosity, work supports, and family supports indicators as predictors of foster care removal rates and nonparental care rates.
Participants and setting: We use a population of 51 states, including the District of Columbia, for years 2008 to 2018, totaling 561 state-years. Methods: We utilize negative binomial regression models with state and year fixed effects.
Results: We find that one-dollar higher minimum wages are negatively associated with both foster care removal rates (IRR = 0.947, p < 0.001) and nonparental care rates (IRR = 0.975, p < 0.01), but that other state policies are not consistently beneficial.
Conclusions: Our results have implications for policies to assist families and reduce child maltreatment.
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License | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives) |
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Publication Date | September 11, 2022 |
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Deposited | November 26, 2023 |
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