While past research has suggested the importance of informal social support and early childhood programs for the well-being of child welfare supervised families and children, little is known about whether or not these mechanisms function as protective factors for child welfare involved families and mediate the likelihood of repeat child maltreatment. The study examined the role of informal social support and early childhood program participation in mediating the effects of initial report of child neglect on subsequent child maltreatment reports. The study sample of children ages 0–6 (N = 1963) was drawn from the NSCAW-II dataset, a nationally representative longitudinal dataset of 5872 child welfare supervised children and their families. Structural Equation Modeling was used to examine the direct and indirect pathways: from initial report of neglect to all subsequent child maltreatment reports and from initial report of neglect to all subsequent child maltreatment reports through mediating variables such as informal social support and early childhood programs. Results showed that informal social support plays an important role in reducing the likelihood of subsequent reports ( = 0.00 0.005). One unit increase in informal social support reduced the odds of a child maltreatment re-report by 0.3 % (odds ratio for informal social support 0.997 It is important that child welfare supervised families are supported in enhancing their informal networks with their family members and friends and expanding non-familial informal networks in the community.

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非正式社会支持和幼儿计划在减少后续虐待儿童报告的可能性方面的保护作用

虽然过去的研究表明非正式社会支持和幼儿计划对于儿童福利监督家庭和儿童的福祉非常重要，但人们对这些机制是否起到儿童福利相关家庭的保护因素并调节儿童福利的可能性知之甚少。重复虐待儿童。该研究考察了非正式社会支持和幼儿计划参与在调节儿童忽视初次报告对后续儿童虐待报告的影响中的作用。 0-6 岁儿童（N = 1963）的研究样本取自 NSCAW-II 数据集，这是一个全国代表性的纵向数据集，包含 5872 名儿童福利监督儿童及其家庭。结构方程模型用于检查直接和间接路径：从最初的忽视报告到所有后续的儿童虐待报告，以及从最初的忽视报告到所有后续的儿童虐待报告，通过非正式社会支持和幼儿计划等中介变量。结果表明，非正式社会支持在降低后续报告的可能性方面发挥着重要作用 (= 0.00 0.005)。非正式社会支持每增加一个单位，儿童虐待再报告的几率就会降低 0.3%（非正式社会支持的优势比为 0.997） 重要的是，儿童福利监督家庭应得到支持，以加强与家人和朋友的非正式网络，并扩大社区中的非家庭非正式网络。