Race, Poverty and Child Protection Decision Making
Race, Poverty and Child Protection Decision Making
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种族、贫困和儿童保护决策
DOI：
10.1093/bjsw/bcr009
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发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
G. Schmidt
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作者：
J. Stokes;G. Schmidt
一些少数民族和少数种族群体以及生活贫困的家庭在儿童福利制度中所占比例过高。重要的是要了解社会经济地位和种族问题如何影响儿童保护决定。本研究采用析因调查方法，研究种族和贫困对儿童保护决策的影响。参与者被要求就风险的严重程度、服务的提供和家访的重要性做出决定，这些决定是在虚构的、但独特的小插曲上进行的，其中自变量是随机分配的。研究发现，种族和贫困在任何决定中都没有统计学意义。相反，影响决策的是其他不利因素，如不合标准的住房、配偶暴力和药物使用。对这一发现的一个可能的解释是，儿童保护工作以其还原主义和个人主义的视角掩盖了人们生活的背景。关于儿童保护的技术官僚话语越来越多地指责父母个人，认为他们有责任不保护自己的孩子免受脆弱性的伤害，而不管他们在获得足够资源方面可能面临任何历史和结构性障碍。
Some ethnic and racial minority groups, as well as families living in poverty, are overrepresented in the child welfare system. It is important to understand how issues of socioeconomic status and race enter into child protection decisions. This research used a factorial survey method to look at the influence of race and poverty on child protection decision making. Participants were asked to make decisions about the severity of risk, service provision and the importance of a home visit on fictitious, but unique, vignettes in which the independent variables were randomly assigned. The finding was that race and poverty were not statistically significant in any of the decisions made. Rather, it was other factors of disadvantage, such as substandard housing, spousal violence and substance use, that impact decision making. A possible explanation for this finding is that child protection work with its reductionist and individualistic perspective obscures the context of people’s lives. The increasingly technocratic discourse in child protection blames individual parents and holds them responsible for not protecting their child from vulnerability, regardless of any historical and structural impediments they may face in attaining adequate resources.