TY - JOUR
T1 - Child protective services during COVID-19 and doubly marginalized children
T2 - International perspectives
AU - Katz, Carmit
AU - Varela, Natalia
AU - Korbin, Jill E.
AU - Najjar, Afnan Attarsh
AU - Cohen, Noa
AU - Bérubé, Annie
AU - Bishop, Ellen
AU - Collin-Vézina, Delphine
AU - Desmond, Alan
AU - Fallon, Barbara
AU - Fouche, Ansie
AU - Haffejee, Sadiyya
AU - Kaawa-Mafigiri, David
AU - Katz, Ilan
AU - Kefalidou, Genovefa
AU - Maguire-Jack, Katie
AU - Massarweh, Nadia
AU - Munir, Akhtar
AU - Munoz, Pablo
AU - Priolo-Filho, Sidnei
AU - Tarabulsy, George M.
AU - Levine, Diane Thembekile
AU - Tiwari, Ashwini
AU - Truter, Elmien
AU - Walker-Williams, Hayley
AU - Wekerle, Christine
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2022/9
Y1 - 2022/9
N2 - Background: Alongside deficits in children's wellbeing, the COVID-19 pandemic has created an elevated risk for child maltreatment and challenges for child protective services worldwide. Therefore, some children might be doubly marginalized, as prior inequalities become exacerbated and new risk factors arise. Objective: To provide initial insight into international researchers' identification of children who might have been overlooked or excluded from services during the pandemic. Participants and setting: This study was part of an international collaboration involving researchers from Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Israel, South Africa, Uganda, the UK and the USA. Researchers from each country provided a written narrative in response to the three research questions in focus, which integrated the available data from their countries. Method: Three main questions were explored: 1) Who are the children that were doubly marginalized? 2) What possible mechanisms may be at the root? and 3) In what ways were children doubly marginalized? The international scholars provided information regarding the three questions. A thematic analysis was employed using the intersectional theoretical framework to highlight the impact of children's various identities. Results: The analysis yielded three domains: (1) five categories of doubly marginalized children at increased risk of maltreatment, (2) mechanisms of neglect consisting of unplanned, discriminatory and inadequate actions, and (3) children were doubly marginalized through exclusion in policy and practice and the challenges faced by belonging to vulnerable groups. Conclusion: The COVID-19 pandemic can be used as a case study to illustrate the protection of children from maltreatment during worldwide crises. Findings generated the understanding that child protective systems worldwide must adhere to an intersectionality framework to protect all children and promote quality child protection services.
AB - Background: Alongside deficits in children's wellbeing, the COVID-19 pandemic has created an elevated risk for child maltreatment and challenges for child protective services worldwide. Therefore, some children might be doubly marginalized, as prior inequalities become exacerbated and new risk factors arise. Objective: To provide initial insight into international researchers' identification of children who might have been overlooked or excluded from services during the pandemic. Participants and setting: This study was part of an international collaboration involving researchers from Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Israel, South Africa, Uganda, the UK and the USA. Researchers from each country provided a written narrative in response to the three research questions in focus, which integrated the available data from their countries. Method: Three main questions were explored: 1) Who are the children that were doubly marginalized? 2) What possible mechanisms may be at the root? and 3) In what ways were children doubly marginalized? The international scholars provided information regarding the three questions. A thematic analysis was employed using the intersectional theoretical framework to highlight the impact of children's various identities. Results: The analysis yielded three domains: (1) five categories of doubly marginalized children at increased risk of maltreatment, (2) mechanisms of neglect consisting of unplanned, discriminatory and inadequate actions, and (3) children were doubly marginalized through exclusion in policy and practice and the challenges faced by belonging to vulnerable groups. Conclusion: The COVID-19 pandemic can be used as a case study to illustrate the protection of children from maltreatment during worldwide crises. Findings generated the understanding that child protective systems worldwide must adhere to an intersectionality framework to protect all children and promote quality child protection services.
KW - COVID-19
KW - Child maltreatment
KW - Child protection services
KW - Discrimination
KW - Inequality
KW - Intersectionality
KW - Racism
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U2 - 10.1016/j.chiabu.2022.105634
DO - 10.1016/j.chiabu.2022.105634
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C2 - 35525629
AN - SCOPUS:85129865655
SN - 0145-2134
VL - 131
JO - Child Abuse and Neglect
JF - Child Abuse and Neglect
M1 - 105634
ER -
