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The Youngest Victims of Child Maltreatment: What Happens to Infants in a Court Sample?

Sandra J. Bishop

Yale University

J. Michael Murphy

Massachusetts General Hospital

Roger Hicks

Massachusetts General Hospital

Sister Dorothy Quinn

Lumen Vitae

Paul D. Lewis

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Martha P. Grace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Michael S. Jellinek

Massachusetts General Hospital

Current data show that infants represent an increasing proportion of cases of child maltreatment. To learn more about how infants fare in the current system and to provide baseline data against which to compare outcomes following recent legislative reforms, this study examined a subsample of infants in a sample of 200 care and protection cases brought before the Boston Juvenile Court in 1994. Child, parent, and case characteristics of infants 0 to 3 months of age (n = 46) were compared with characteristics of older children in the sample. All cases were followed prospectively for 4 years, and data were abstracted from court records. Results revealed that the infants were primarily children of substance abusers who had extensive prior histories of child protective service system involvement. Although the majority of the infants were eventually permanently removed from parental custody and adopted, many experienced time delays and multiple placements before achieving permanent homes.

Child Maltreatment, Vol. 6, No. 3, 243-249 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/1077559501006003005
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