Elevated Risk of Child Maltreatment in Families With Stepparents but Not With Adoptive Parents
Van IJzendoorn, M., Euser, E., Prinzie, P., Juffer, F., & Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. (2009). Child Maltreatment, 14(4), 369-375 10.1177/1077559509342125
Does child maltreatment occur more often in adoptive and stepfamilies than in biological families? Data were collected from all 17 Dutch child protective services (CPS) agencies on 13,538 cases of certified child maltreatment in 2005. Family composition of the maltreated children was compared to a large national representative sample of the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (NKPS). Larger families, one-parent families, …