US: Black children most likely to be investigated by CPS, study says
Youth Today – August 02, 2021
For a lot of children in the U.S, especially Black kids, a common part of childhood – alongside the typical birthday parties, playground games and first days of school – are frequent encounters with child welfare services, according to a new study out of Rutgers University and Duke University. “Child welfare contact happens a lot more than I think people appreciate,” said Frank Edwards, assistant professor at Rutgers School of Criminal Justice and a co-author of the study. “Investigations by child welfare services is a normal event for most groups of children in the United States, and it’s particularly true for Black children.”
Also: Contact with Child Protective Services is pervasive but unequally distributed by race and ethnicity in large US counties: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/30/e2106272118

Black children most likely to be investigated by CPS, study says