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omen's use of welfare and number of subsequent children were based on self-report; their arrests and convictions were based on self-report and archived data from New York State. Verified reports of child abuse and neglect were abstracted from state records. Main Results. =m- ring the 15-year period after the birth of their first child, in contrast to women in the comparison group, women who were visited by nurses during pregnancy and infancy were identified as perpetrators of child abuse and neglect in 0. 29 vs 0. 54 verified reports (P<. 001). Among women who were unmarried and from households of low socioeconomic status at initial enrollment, in contrast to those in the comparison group, nurse-visited women had 1. 3 vs 1. 6 subsequent births (P=. 02), 65 vs 37 months between the birth of the first and a second child (P=. 001), 60 vs 90 months' receiving Aid to Families With Dependent Children (P=. 005), 0. 41 vs 0. 73 behavioral impairments due to use of alcohol and other drugs (P=. 03), 0. 18 vs 0. 58 arrests by self-report (P<. 001), and 0. 16 vs 0. 90 arrests disclosed by New York State records (P<. 001). Conclusions. =m
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