The effect of demographic factors on perceptions of child neglect

Ringwalt, Christopher L.; Caye, Joanne

doi:10.1016/0190-7409(89)90029-7

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“…Correlational analyses indicate that subscale ratings on the CNCNS modestly relate to demographic characteristics in the overall sample. Consistent with prior research (e.g., Portwood, 1998;Shor, 2000), including one study in a rural sample (Ringwalt & Caye, 1989), respondent gender and education were significantly correlated with perceptions of seriousness of neglect. Unexpectedly, total household income related negatively to all neglect subscales; participants with higher household income viewed all types of neglect scenarios as less serious.…”

Section: Cncns Subtypessupporting

confidence: 84%

“…However, cultural or regional differences may also account for this discrepancy. Ringwalt and Caye (1989) found income to be unrelated to perceptions of maltreatment when controlling for race, age, education, and occupation type.…”

Section: Cncns Subtypesmentioning

confidence: 86%

“…Several limitations of this study should also be noted. First, our sample included very little racial or ethnic diversity, so our findings do not reflect differences that may exist across racial or ethnic groups (e.g., Dubowitz et al, 1998;Ringwalt & Caye, 1989;Rose & Meezan, 1996). Pending further research in more diverse samples or studies focused on specific racial or ethnic groups, findings from this study apply primarily to European Americans.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Development and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Community Norms of Child Neglect Scale

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This article describes the development of the Community Norms of Child Neglect Scale (CNCNS), a new measure of perceptions of child neglect, for use in community samples. The CNCNS differentiates among four subtypes of neglect (failure to provide for basic needs, lack of supervision, emotional neglect, and educational neglect). Scenarios ranging in seriousness for each subtype were presented to a large community sample (N = 3,809). Confirmatory factor analyses indicated that a four-factor model provided a better fit to the data than did a model specifying only one overall neglect factor, suggesting this sample distinguished among the four subtypes of neglect. The authors tested measurement equivalence across individuals who work with children and lay community respondents and across rural and urban respondents, with results indicating a very similar structure across these groups. These initial reliability and validity data suggest that the CNCNS may be of use in comparing perceptions of child neglect among individuals and across communities.

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“…A range of other studies utilizing a variety of research methods have not been able to identify ethnic or culture related differences in perceptions of child neglect. Maiter, Alaggia and Trocme (2004), Polansky, Ammons and Weathersby (1983), Ringwalt and Caye (1989), Ferrari (2002) and Korbin et al (2000) all reported that there appeared to be little or no difference between different racial/cultural/ethnic groups. Polansky, Ammons and Weathersby's failure to isolate differences between mothers from different races (black/white), income levels (working/middle class) or geographical locations (rural/urban) led them to conclude that: "…it appears there is such a thing as an American standard of minimal child care that is commonly held and that may be invoked in the definition of child neglect for legal and social work purposes" (1983: 9345).…”

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Redrawing the line: An exploration of how lay people construct child neglect

Williams

2017

Child Abuse & Neglect

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While there has been an increasing professional and political focus on the prevalence and harmfulness of child neglect, little has been done to explore what child neglect means outside child protection circles. This qualitative study explores lay constructions of child neglect by thematically analyzing focus group discussions between 46 self-defined 'lay' people in England. Participants viewed neglect as extremely damaging for children and as arising when children's physical, emotional, training and supervisory needs were unmet due to abnormal parental behavior. Children with unmet needs were positioned as deprived, unloved, uncontrolled and escaping. They were only positioned as neglected when failure to meet their needs was attributable to a lack of parental knowledge and skill (clueless parents), a lack of appropriate parental disposition (underinvested parents) or both (unsuitable parents). 'Normal' parents - those with the appropriate parental disposition, skills and knowledge - who failed to meet their children's needs were not seen as neglectful but rather as overburdened. As 'normal parenting' has fragmented in late modernity, society wide consensus on child neglect was felt by participants to have retreated to child protection definitions, alienating lay understandings. If child neglect really is 'everybody's business', then it is important that lay people are included in forging new definitions of and responses to meeting the needs of children.

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“…Clearly, the African American respondents were sensitive to issues of harsh discipline or maltreatment of children, but they would not agree with Deater-Deckard and Dodge's implicit view that physical discipline is by nature harsh. The general finding that African Americans and the less educated are more sensitive to child experiences that portend maltreatment was essentially replicated a decade later in the rural South (Ringwalt & Caye, 1989). Heffer and Kelley (1987) studied both middle and lower class African American mothers in comparison to middle and lower class European American mothers to determine their disciplinary and child management preferences among five methods: positive reinforcement, response cost (withholding privileges), time-out, spanking, and medication.…”

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issues in Need of Initial Visitation: Race and Nation Specificity in the Study of Externalizing Behavior Problems and Discipline

Jackson¹

1997

Psychological Inquiry

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The effect of demographic factors on perceptions of child neglect

Cited by 28 publications

References 8 publications

Development and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Community Norms of Child Neglect Scale

Development and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Community Norms of Child Neglect Scale

Redrawing the line: An exploration of how lay people construct child neglect

issues in Need of Initial Visitation: Race and Nation Specificity in the Study of Externalizing Behavior Problems and Discipline

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