PREDICTING AND PREVENTING CHILD NEGLECT

这个子项目是许多研究子项目中的一个 由NIH/NCRR资助的中心赠款提供的资源。子项目及 研究者（PI）可能从另一个NIH来源获得了主要资金， 因此可以在其他CRISP条目中表示。所列机构为 研究中心，而研究中心不一定是研究者所在的机构。 每年报告的虐待儿童案件超过200万起。 其中，忽视儿童是最大的一类。 尽管缺乏一个共同的，商定的定义，忽视是一个重大的和研究不足的威胁正常和发展和幼儿的福祉。 在这个建议中，我们从社会背景的角度来看待忽视。 我们认为父母未能为孩子提供适当和足够的营养，包括社会情感发展和智力和语言刺激的支持，以及身体需求和医疗保健的阻碍。 我们建议进行一项为期5年的前瞻性研究，以560名怀孕青少年及其子女为代表性样本，沿着种族匹配的成年母亲样本。 总体目标是制定敏感的早期忽视措施，建立一个强有力的经验基础，以确定增加或减少忽视青少年父母的条件，并完善一个概念框架，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.