US: Want to Prevent Child Abuse? Behold the Transformative Power Of Cash (Commentary)
Youth Today – August 14, 2019
I think of this whenever people in child welfare declare themselves shocked by something that everyone who has to deal with child protective services already knows. The latest case in point: a commentary for a medical journal by Dr. Katherine Campbell, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Utah. The headline reads: “Prevention of Child Maltreatment as an Unexpected Benefit of Social Policies.” “Unexpected”? Not for those who are poor or ever have been poor. I suspect they’d say: “It’s not unexpected to us. We remarked on it.”
Study: Assessment of Rates of Child Maltreatment in States With Medicaid Expansion vs States Without Medicaid Expansion: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2735758

https://youthtoday.org/2019/08/want-to-prevent-child-abuse-behold-the-transformative-power-of-cash/