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Race and Child Welfare Policy: State-Level Variations in Disproportionality

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Author	Foster, Carly Hayden
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	African American children are represented among those housed in foster care at more than twice the rate of their overall representation in the US population. This racial disproportionality is well known among child welfare researchers, who have been attempting to explain the phenomenon. Are African American families under more surveillance than white families because of involvement with TANF and other government aid programs, resulting in higher rates of foster care placements? Are investigators more likely to pursue allegations of abuse within African American families? Are African American children more likely to suffer from maltreatment? My research makes a unique contribution by investigating state-level variations in child welfare policy outcomes. Following the innovative work of Soss et al. (American Journal of Political Science 52(3):536–553, 2008) who find that states with larger African American populations have more stringent welfare regimes, it would be reasonable to expect that states with larger African American populations would have more aggressive child protection policies, resulting in higher numbers of children being housed in state protective custody. This work exposes a strikingly different pattern: States with larger African American populations are distinctly less likely to take children into protective custody. In addition, states with larger African American populations have dramatically lower levels of racial disproportionality among their children in foster care. States with larger white majorities place more children in foster care and place disproportionately higher percentages of African American children in foster care.
Starting Page	93
Ending Page	101
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
ISSN	18671748
Journal	Race and Social Problems
Volume Number	4
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	18671756
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2012-05-23
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Racial disproportionality Child welfare policy Personality and Social Psychology Social Work
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Anthropology

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