PREDICTING AND PREVENTING CHILD NEGLECT

这个子项目是许多研究子项目中利用 资源由NIH/NCRR资助的中心拨款提供。子项目和 调查员(PI)可能从NIH的另一个来源获得了主要资金， 并因此可以在其他清晰的条目中表示。列出的机构是 该中心不一定是调查人员的机构。 每年报告的虐待儿童案件超过200万起。其中，忽视儿童是最大的单一类别。尽管缺乏一个共同的、商定的定义，但忽视是对幼儿正常、发展和福祉的一种重大威胁，也是一种研究很少的威胁。在这项建议中，我们从社会语境的角度来看待忽视。我们将Nflect定义为父母未能为孩子提供适当和足够的滋扰，包括支持社交情感发展和智力和语言刺激，以及对身体需求和医疗保健的关注。我们建议对560名怀孕的青少年及其子女进行一项以人群为基础的代表性样本的4点5年前瞻性研究，以及一个种族匹配的成年母亲样本。总体目标是开发早期忽视的敏感测量，为确定青少年父母中增加或减少忽视的条件建立强有力的经验基础，并完善概念框架，为预防忽视及其对儿童、家庭和社会的负面后果提供战略干预。

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.