PREDICTING AND PREVENTING CHILD NEGLECT

本子项目是利用由NIH/NCRR资助的中心赠款提供的资源的众多研究子项目之一。子项目和研究者（PI）可能已经从另一个NIH来源获得了主要资金，因此可以在其他CRISP条目中表示。列出的机构是中心的，不一定是研究者的机构。每年报告的虐待儿童案件超过200万起。其中，儿童忽视是最大的一类。尽管缺乏一个共同的、商定的定义，但忽视对幼儿的正常、发展和福祉是一个重大的、尚未得到充分研究的威胁。在本建议中，我们从社会情境的角度来看待忽视。我们将疏忽定义为父母未能为孩子提供适当和充分的营养，包括对社会情感发展和智力和语言刺激的支持，以及对身体需求和卫生保健的关注。我们建议对560名怀孕少女和她们的孩子以及种族匹配的成年母亲进行一项4点、5年的前瞻性研究。总体目标是制定早期忽视的敏感措施，为确定增加或减少青少年父母忽视的条件建立强有力的经验基础，并完善概念框架，为战略干预提供信息，以防止忽视及其对儿童、家庭和社会的负面影响。

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. Over 2 million cases of child maltreatment are reported each year. Of these, child neglect is the largest single category. Despite lack of a common, agreed upon definition, neglect is a significant and much understudied threat to the normal and devlopment and well-being of young children. In this proposal, we view neglect from a social-contextual perspectove. We identify neflect as a parent's failure to provide the child with apropriate and adequate nuturance, including support for social-emotional development and intellectual and langauge stimulation, as well as arrention to physical needs and health care. We propose to conduct a 4-site, 5 year prospective study of a population-based representative sample of 560 pregnant adolescents and their children, along with an ethnically matched sample of adult mothers. The overall objectives are to develop sensitive measures of early neglect, to establish a strong empirical basis for identifying the conditions that increase or decrease neglect among teen parents, and to refine a conceptual framework that will inform strategic interventions to prevent neglect and its negative consequences for chidlren, families, and society.