Introduction
This research brief uses data from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) to describe adoption among infants involved with the CWS. NSCAW is a national longitudinal study of the well-being of 5,501 children aged 14 years or younger who had contact with the CWS within a 15-month period starting October 1999.
This research brief focuses on 962 children who were infants when they first became involved in investigations for abuse or neglect and whose caregiver participated at the 5- to- 6-year follow-up. The data used here were collected between 1999 and 2007 and drawn from standardized measures of child development, as well as from interviews of caregivers and caseworkers for all children who were 12 months or younger at baseline in the NSCAW child protective services sample.