Out-of-Home-Care Rates among Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Children in Countries With Histories of Settler Colonialism

Martin Eiermann, Mikkeline Munk Nielsen, Christopher Wildeman, Peter Fallesen, University of Wisconsin - Madison, ROCKWOOL Foundation, University of Copenhagen, Duke University, Stockholm University

Child Maltreatment

Published online on December 23, 2025

Abstract

Child Maltreatment, Ahead of Print.
Indigenous children in settler-colonial societies have historically been exposed to frequent family separation; yet contemporary family separation through out-of-home-care (OOHC) remains understudied. We analyzed annual OOHC rates among indigenous and non-...