African-American Children More Likely To Be Involved With Texas Child Welfare System

African-American children in Texas were more likely than Anglo-American or Hispanic children to be involved with the child welfare system during 2017. African-American are 1.7 times more likely than Anglo-American children to be the subject of an abuse or neglect report in 2017; 1.9 times more likely to be involved in a maltreatment investigation; and 1.9 times more likely to be removed from their homes. Hispanic children were slightly less likely than Anglo children to be reported, investigated, or removed.

These statistics were reported in "Rider 14 Report On Minority Child Removals" by . . .