A new study by the UW will review whether giving poor, struggling families a leg-up can reduce cases of child abuse or neglect.
UW-Madison researchers are working with La Crosse child care advocates on the year-long study. Kristen Slack, an associate professor of Social Work at UW-Madison, says their findings may help design more effective strategies to prevent abuse and neglect. She says despite research showing that poverty is highly correlated with maltreatment, thereâ??s never been a study to try to test whether thereâ??s a causal role of poverty and maltreatment.