Life after Growing Up in Care: Informing Policy and Practice through Research
| Autor: | Suellen Murray, Jim Goddard |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Gerontology
Health (social science) Sociology and Political Science business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Face (sociological concept) Public relations Affect (psychology) Social justice Mental health Independence Variety (cybernetics) Medicine business Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Period (music) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Australian Social Work. 67:102-117 |
| ISSN: | 1447-0748 0312-407X |
| DOI: | 10.1080/0312407x.2013.868010 |
| Popis: | Existing research on the impact of growing up in care focuses upon either the care experience itself or the period of transition from care to independence. Our knowledge of outcomes largely ceases when former residents of the care system reach their early twenties. There are strong social justice reasons for extending research into the older adult lives of such young people. We know a great deal about the multiple disadvantages that such individuals face as children. But research is largely silent about their subsequent adult lives. While we must be cautious in drawing causal links to the childhood care experience as the time period since life in care extends, we know that early experiences can affect care-leavers across their life course—just as childhood experience affects all adults in a variety of ways. In this review, we highlight evidence drawn from research in Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, and the United States, with particular attention paid to the first two of those coun... |
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