Identifying Divergent Foster Care Careers for Danish Children
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Identifying Divergent Foster Care Careers for Danish Children. / Fallesen, Peter.
In: Child Abuse & Neglect, Vol. 38, No. 11, 2014, p. 1860-1871.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Identifying Divergent Foster Care Careers for Danish Children
AU - Fallesen, Peter
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Foster care children who experience placement disruption and foster care instability are at elevated risk for a host of poor outcomes, yet little work considers what these unstable foster care careers look like or what causes them. In this article, I start by using previous studies on foster care drift, instability, and placement disruptions to define the unstable foster care career as a subset of foster care careers. I then use administrative data on 30,239 Danish children born 1982-1987 who entered foster care to generate nine foster care careers, two of which meet the criteria for an unstable career. Children with a high number of risk factors associated with foster care entry were also the most likely to enter an unstable career. I end by discussing implications for recent studies of the effect of foster care on children’s later life outcomes and the relevance of the findings for practitioners.
AB - Foster care children who experience placement disruption and foster care instability are at elevated risk for a host of poor outcomes, yet little work considers what these unstable foster care careers look like or what causes them. In this article, I start by using previous studies on foster care drift, instability, and placement disruptions to define the unstable foster care career as a subset of foster care careers. I then use administrative data on 30,239 Danish children born 1982-1987 who entered foster care to generate nine foster care careers, two of which meet the criteria for an unstable career. Children with a high number of risk factors associated with foster care entry were also the most likely to enter an unstable career. I end by discussing implications for recent studies of the effect of foster care on children’s later life outcomes and the relevance of the findings for practitioners.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - administrative data
KW - foster care
KW - instability
KW - Sequence Analysis
U2 - 10.1016/j.chiabu.2014.08.004
DO - 10.1016/j.chiabu.2014.08.004
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 25176507
VL - 38
SP - 1860
EP - 1871
JO - Child Abuse & Neglect
JF - Child Abuse & Neglect
SN - 0145-2134
IS - 11
ER -
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