Cautions About Research Linking Abortion Restrictions to Child Maltreatment

IF 1.4 4区医学 Q2 SOCIAL WORK

Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal Pub Date : 2024-08-07 DOI:10.1007/s10560-024-00977-w

Monica Faulkner, Katie Massey Combs, Amy Dworsky, Svetlana Shpiegel, Kristen Ethier

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Abstract

The United States Supreme Court’s decision in Dobb’s v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization has heightened interest in the link between restrictions on abortion access and child maltreatment. Connecting decreased access to abortion to increases in child maltreatment and subsequent foster care entries presents substantive challenges related to the magnitude of any effect of abortion restrictions, methodological challenges related to limitations of existing sources of national child welfare data, and conceptual challenges related to the structure and function of child welfare systems. In this paper, we explore these substantive, methodological and conceptual challenges. Specifically, we consider both the actual impact of abortion restrictions on the occurrence of abortions and the complexities that studying the link between abortion restrictions and child maltreatment presents. We caution researchers about making causal links between abortion restrictions and either child maltreatment or foster care entries without sufficiently documenting limitations of national sources of child welfare data and accounting for multiple confounding factors.

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关于将限制堕胎与虐待儿童联系起来的研究的注意事项

美国最高法院在 "Dobb's 诉杰克逊妇女健康组织 "一案中做出的判决使人们更加关注限制堕胎与虐待儿童之间的联系。将堕胎机会的减少与儿童虐待及随后的寄养需求的增加联系起来，面临着与堕胎限制的影响程度有关的实质性挑战、与现有全国儿童福利数据来源的局限性有关的方法论挑战，以及与儿童福利系统的结构和功能有关的概念性挑战。在本文中，我们将探讨这些实质性、方法论和概念上的挑战。具体而言，我们既考虑了堕胎限制对堕胎发生率的实际影响，也考虑了研究堕胎限制与儿童虐待之间的联系所带来的复杂性。我们提醒研究人员，在没有充分记录全国儿童福利数据来源的局限性并考虑多种混杂因素的情况下，不要将堕胎限制与儿童虐待或寄养入托之间建立因果联系。

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Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal SOCIAL WORK-

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期刊介绍： The Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal (CASW) features original articles that focus on social work practice with children, adolescents, and their families. Topics include issues affecting a variety of specific populations in special settings. CASW welcomes a range of scholarly contributions focused on children and adolescents, including theoretical papers, narrative case studies, historical analyses, traditional reviews of the literature, descriptive studies, single-system research designs, correlational investigations, methodological works, pre-experimental, quasi-experimental and experimental evaluations, meta-analyses and systematic reviews. Manuscripts involving qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods are welcome to be submitted, as are papers grounded in one or more theoretical orientations, or those that are not based on any formal theory. CASW values different disciplines and interdisciplinary work that informs social work practice and policy. Authors from public health, nursing, psychology, sociology, and other disciplines are encouraged to submit manuscripts. All manuscripts should include specific implications for social work policy and practice with children and adolescents. Appropriate fields of practice include interpersonal practice, small groups, families, organizations, communities, policy practice, nationally-oriented work, and international studies. Authors considering publication in CASW should review the following editorial: Schelbe, L., & Thyer, B. A. (2019). Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal Editorial Policy: Guidelines for Authors. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 36, 75-80.