Department of Social Work, Stockholm University, Sweden.
Department of Social Work, Stockholm University, Sweden.
Child Abuse Negl. 2017 May;67:408-418. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2016.11.009. Epub 2016 Nov 22.
Little is known about developmental outcomes in midlife of persons who were placed in out-of-home care (OHC) in childhood. Utilizing longitudinal Swedish data from a cohort of more than 14,000 individuals who we can follow from birth (1953) to the age of 55 (2008), this study examines midlife trajectories of social, economic, and health-related disadvantages with a specific focus on the complexity, timing, and duration of disadvantage in individuals with and without childhood experience of OHC. Roughly half of the OHC alumni did not have disadvantaged outcomes in midlife. However, experience of OHC was associated with a two-fold risk for various forms of permanent disadvantage, net of confounding factors. Implications for research, policy, and practice are discussed.
关于在儿童时期被安置在家庭外照顾(OHC)的人在中年的发展结果,人们知之甚少。本研究利用了来自一个超过 14000 人的队列的纵向瑞典数据,这些人可以从出生(1953 年)到 55 岁(2008 年)进行跟踪,研究了社会、经济和健康相关劣势的中年轨迹,特别关注有和没有儿童时期 OHC 经历的个体的劣势的复杂性、时机和持续时间。大约一半的 OHC 校友在中年没有不利的结果。然而,在控制混杂因素后,经历 OHC 与各种形式的永久劣势的两倍风险相关。讨论了对研究、政策和实践的影响。