What is the most recent evidence regarding racial disproportionality and disparate outcomes for children in Kentucky?
ata from the 2000 census show African American children representing 7% of the overall population in Kentucky. When looking at figures from the Child Welfare System, African American children make up 21% of the total amount of children in out-of-home-care (OOHC) (datasource: TWS 058 – January, 2007). African American children are over-represented in out-of-home care at a rate 2.9 times what is expected based on their representation on the census population. This over-representation is coupled with disparate treatment of racial/ethnic children in the Child Welfare System.
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- What do the experts think are the causes of disproportionality/disparate outcomes for children of color in the child welfare system?
- Do disproportionality/disparate outcomes happen because families of color maltreat their children more often than white families?
- Are disproportionality and disparate outcomes in child welfare problems only in Kentucky?
