Exploring the experience that black girls in local authority care have of adultification

成人过程被定义为一个双重的社会化过程，儿童的行为和举止表明他们的发展要成熟得多；基于对他们在特定发展阶段应该如何表现的社会或文化假设(Goff等人，2014，乔治敦贫困和不平等中心，2017，第4页)。Jamilia Blake呼吁以一种更细微的、对种族和性别敏感的方式来讨论儿童成年问题，我提出的研究旨在做到这一点。通过探索导致黑人女孩在进入地方当局托儿所之前成年的因素，以及在托儿所期间这种现象的持续存在，这项研究将有助于我们了解这一领域，并揭示这一代表不足的群体。这项研究将提供有用的信息，以支持地方当局和学校内制定托儿服务做法，以更好地确保以更有效地保护和支持易受伤害的黑人女孩的方式确定和评估问题。这份概念图将有助于围绕成年的学术讨论，提供一个认识到导致黑人女孩成年的因素的多方面和相互依存的性质的视角。

Adultification is defined as a two-fold process of socialization, whereby children act and behave in ways that suggest a much more mature development; based on social or cultural assumptions about how they should behave at a particular stage of development (Goff et al., 2014 as cited by The Georgetown Centre on Poverty and Inequality, 2017, p.4).Jamilia Blake calls for a more nuanced, race and gender sensitive approach to the conversation about the adultification of children and my proposed research aims to do this. By exploring factors that contribute to the adultification of black girls prior to entering local authority care, as well as the persistence of this phenomena whilst in care, this research will make a significant contribution to our understanding of this area, as well shining a light on this underrepresented groupThis research will provide useful information to support the development of care provision practice within local authorities and schools that better ensures that issues are identified and assessed in ways that more effectively protect and support vulnerable Black girls. The concept-map will contribute to the academic conversation around adultification, providing a perspective that recognises the multifaceted and interdependent nature of the factors that contribute to the adultification of black girls.