Emerging Adulthood for Maltreated and Foster Youth

受虐待和寄养青少年的成年初期

• 批准号: 9296259
• 负责人: Lawrence M Berger
• 金额: $ 23.49万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-04-01 至 2019-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9296259
• 关键词: Adopted; Adoption; Adult; Affect; Age; Aging; Area; Attention; Caring; Characteristics; Child; Child Abuse; Child Abuse and Neglect; Child Welfare; Childhood; Data; Data Set; Development; Disputes; Economic Development; Economics; Emotional; Employment; Expenditure; Face; Family; Family member; Fertility; Fostering; Fracture; Group Homes; Health; Heterogeneity; Imprisonment; Intervention; Investigation; Length; Outcome; Parents; Policies; Population; Recording of previous events; Research; Role; Sample Size; Social Welfare; Social support; Time; United States; Wisconsin; Work; Youth; child neglect; child protective service; early childhood; economic outcome; emerging adulthood; experience; foster care; insight; intergenerational; maltreatment; patient home care; programs; social; socioeconomic disadvantage; transmission process; young adult

Abstract By age 18, 13% of youth in the United States have been identified as victims of at least one incident of child abuse or neglect by Child Protective Services (CPS) and 6% have experienced out-of-home care (OHC). For black youth, these rates are a staggering 21% and 12%. Whereas most youth rely on parents or family members for financial and emotional support during the transition to adulthood, this often is not an option for youth with histories of maltreatment and OHC, whose familial relationships may be fractured. Yet, little of the large body of research on maltreatment and OHC focuses on emerging adulthood, and prior research findings are inconsistent with respect to the potential effects of OHC on later outcomes, highlighting the need to closely examine heterogeneity in OHC experiences. Many characteristics of the OHC experience may affect long term development, including placement type, number of placements, whether youth are reunified, adopted, or remain in OHC until adulthood (“age out” of care). Prior research has often oversimplified this immense diversity in experiences. Better understanding the role of maltreatment and OHC experiences in emerging adulthood will provide new insight into programming and policy decisions for CPS-involved youth. The proposed study will use a statewide, longitudinal, administrative dataset that includes the entire population of CPS-involved youth and youth whose families participated in social welfare benefit programs in Wisconsin to examine how a range of maltreatment and OHC experiences are associated with social, educational, and economic outcomes in emerging adulthood, including employment and earnings, benefit receipt, educational attainment, fertility timing, incarceration, paying close attention to the type(s) of maltreatment experienced as well as OHC placement characteristics (type, length, number of placements) and type of exit from OHC (aging out, reunification or adoption). Finally, we will examine the extent to which young adult parents who experienced childhood CPS involvement or OHC are likely to become the subject of a CPS investigation or OHC placement regarding their own children. This research extends prior work in this area by using multiple identification strategies and comparison (counterfactual) groups to reduce bias in estimated associations of both maltreatment and OHC with subsequent outcomes. It has implications for informing policy and practice to better prepare CPS-involved youth to successfully transition to adulthood and, thereby, for reducing subsequent public expenditures on this population.

抽象的 到18岁时，美国有13％的青年被确定为至少一个儿童事件的受害者 儿童保护服务（CPS）和6％的虐待或忽视经历了户外护理（OHC）。为了 黑人青年，这些速度占21％和12％。而大多数年轻人都依靠父母或家人 成员在过渡到成年期间的财务和情感支持，这通常不是一个选择 有虐待和OHC历史的年轻人，其家庭关系可能会破裂。但是，很少 大量有关虐待和OHC的研究专注于新兴的成年和事先研究结果 关于OHC对以后结果的潜在影响不一致，强调了关闭的需求 检查OHC体验中的异质性。 OHC体验的许多特征可能会影响长期 开发，包括安置类型，安置数量，年轻人被统一，通过或 保持在OHC，直到成年（护理“年龄”）。先前的研究常常简化了这一巨大的 经验的多样性。更好地了解虐待和OHC经历在新兴中的作用 成年将为参与CPS的青年提供新的洞察力和政策决策。 拟议的研究将使用全州，纵向的行政数据集，其中包括整个人群 CPS参与的青年和青年的家庭参加了威斯康星州的社会福利计划 检查一系列虐待和OHC经历与社会，教育和 新兴成年的经济成果，包括就业和收入，福利收入，教育 成就，生育时机，事件，密切关注虐待的类型 以及OHC放置特征（类型，长度，位置数量）和OHC出口类型（老化 出去，统一或采用）。最后，我们将研究年轻的成年父母 经验丰富的童年CP参与或OHC可能会成为CPS调查或 关于自己的孩子的OHC安置。这项研究通过使用多个来扩展该领域的先前工作 识别策略和比较（反事实）组，以减少估计关联的偏见 虐待和OHC随后的结果。它有助于告知政策和实践 更好地准备涉及CPS的青年，以成功地过渡到成年，从而减少 随后对该人群的公共支出。