American Journal of Public Health
Volume 78, Issue 8, 1988, Pages 934-936

Children of migrant farm work families are at high risk for maltreatment: New York State study (Article) (Open Access)

Alvarez W.F. , Doris J. , Larson III O.
  • a Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States
  • b Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States
  • c Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States

Abstract

Utilizing a crosstabulation between data collected by the Migrant Student Records Transfer System and the New York State Central Register, it was determined that 298 of the 7,408 migrant children, age 18 years or younger, censused in 1982 were on file as having been maltreated in 1982. This rate, 40.2 per 1,000, is substantially higher than the rate found for upstate New York children (5.5). Maltreatment rates also varied by migrant status and household composition.

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male female major clinical study social structure migrant worker agricultural worker maltreatment human Child legal aspect Adolescent
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.78.8.934
ISSN: 00900036
Cited by: 8
Original Language: English