The Incredibly Credible Prevalence of Child Protective Services Contact in New Zealand and the United States

摘要

In late 2014, I was invited to present some of my recent research estimating the cumulative prevalence of confirmed child maltreatment and foster care placement among US children at the Inequality and Social Policy Seminar at Harvard University. This was a huge moment for me. Rarely, if ever, had mainstream sociology seriously engaged with either of these social problems.