Abused and neglected children in America: A study of alternative policies.
Abused and neglected children in America: A study of alternative policies.
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美国受虐待和被忽视的儿童：替代政策研究。
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1973
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R. Light
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最近，纸媒和电子媒体都强调了美国严重受教育和被忽视的儿童所面临的问题。为改善导致虐待和忽视儿童的状况提出了许多建议，但几乎没有确凿的数据告诉我们，哪些社会政策可以最有效地对抗这些状况。在这篇文章中，审查了几个数据来源，以估计虐待的发生率，其社会和人口特征，以及现有虐待儿童案件报告的性质。详细分析了三项潜在的社会政策：国家健康筛查、儿童养育教育和编制虐待家庭概况，希望为他们提供预防性帮助。每项分析都有两个基本主题。首先，即使数据不完整，也往往可以在一项社会政策付诸实施之前评估其可能的有效性。第二，最初在非实验环境中收集的数据仍然可以用来建议改进…
Both the print and electronic media recently have highlighted the problems faced by severely abased and neglected children in America. Many suggestions have been offered for ameliorating the conditions leading to child abuse and neglect, but few hard data exist to tell us which social policies can be most effective in combatting these conditions. In this article, several sources of data are examined to estimate the incidence of abuse, its social and demographic features, and the nature of available child abuse case reports. Three potential social policies are analyzed in detail: national health screening, education in child rearing, and the development of profiles of abusing families with the hope of offering them preventive help. Each analysis has two underlying themes. First, even with incomplete data it is often possible to evaluate the probable effectiveness of a social policy before it is implemented. Second, data initially collected in a non-experimental setting ran still be used to suggest improvem...