This prospective population-based study explored whether mothers who maltreat had different risk and protective factors than mothers who don’t including the mother’s age when they had their first child, the number of births, marital status, whether the mothers were maltreated as a child and race. This study used data from the Queensland Cross-sector Research Collaboration (QCRC) repository, which included 18,019 mothers born in Queensland during 1983 or 1984 who were aged between 30 or 31 years at the time of data extraction. Mothers were categorised as maltreating (n = 998) or non-maltreating (n = 17,021) based on whether they had substantiated contact with the child protection system, and differences in risk/protective factors were explored. Results indicated that mothers who maltreat were more likely than mothers who don’t to have their first child at a younger age, significantly more children, less likely to be married, more likely to be Indigenous, and more likely to have experienced childhood maltreatment. Implications for policy and practice are discussed, including the need for culturally appropriate home visitation programmes and parenting programmes to reduce the likelihood of child maltreatment perpetration.

这项基于人群的前瞻性研究探讨了虐待母亲的风险和保护因素是否与不包括母亲生第一个孩子时的年龄、生育数量、婚姻状况、母亲是否在孩提时受到虐待的母亲不同和种族。本研究使用来自昆士兰跨部门研究合作 (QCRC) 存储库的数据，其中包括 18,019 名 1983 年或 1984 年在昆士兰出生的母亲，她们在数据提取时年龄在 30 到 31 岁之间。母亲被归类为虐待 ( n  = 998) 或非虐待 ( n = 17,021）基于他们是否已证实与儿童保护系统的接触，并探讨了风险/保护因素的差异。结果表明，虐待的母亲比没有在更年轻时生第一个孩子的母亲更有可能，孩子更多，结婚的可能性更小，更有可能是土著，并且更有可能经历过童年虐待。讨论了对政策和实践的影响，包括需要适合文化的家访计划和育儿计划，以减少虐待儿童的可能性。