Identifying Divergent Foster Care Careers for Danish Children
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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.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Child Abuse & Neglect |
Volume | 38 |
Issue number | 11 |
Pages (from-to) | 1860-1871 |
Number of pages | 12 |
ISSN | 0145-2134 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2014 |
- Faculty of Social Sciences - administrative data, foster care, instability, Sequence Analysis
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