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Child Maltreatment in Out-of-Home Care: What Do We Know Now?
Gail Tittle, John Poertner, and Philip Garnier

This study replicates a previous study, "Child Maltreatment in Foster Care: A Study of Retrospective Reporting," and attempts to identify the degree to which retrospective reports might be counted in a safety indicator of abuse and neglect of children in out of home care. The results of this and the previous study indicate that current recurrence rates significantly over estimate the amount of child abuse and neglect incidents for children in out of home care. It is hoped that this study will provide a clearer picture of the level, circumstances, and types of child maltreatment that occur within the foster care system.