How safe are out-of-home placements?

Poertner, John; Bussey, Marian; Fluke, John D.

doi:10.1016/s0190-7409(99)00038-9

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“…Finally, females and Whites are more likely to experience higher levels of sexual victimization whereas running away more often is positively linked to being a victim of physical assault. With the exception of sexual abuse, these results are in the expected direction and are generally consistent with the larger literature on foster care youth (Benedict et al 1994; Clausen et al 1998; Courtney and Terao 2005; Poertner et al 1999; Taussig 2002; Thompson et al 1994; Unrau and Grinnell 2005; Vaughn et al 2007). …”

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confidence: 86%

“…Many foster youth have experienced abuse and/or neglect in their family of origin or while in foster care or both (Benedict et al 1994; Clausen et al 1998; Poertner et al 1999; Thompson et al 1994). For example, Lau et al (2003) in their study of high risk youth in the public sector of care found that more than one half of respondents reported at least one type of moderate abuse.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Foster Care Placement, Poor Parenting, and Negative Outcomes Among Homeless Young Adults

Tyler

Melander

2010

J Child Fam Stud

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Although homeless youth with and without foster care histories both face adverse life circumstances, little is known about how these two groups compare in terms of their early histories and whether they face similar outcomes. As such, we compared those with and without a history of foster care placement to determine if the associations between a history of poor parenting and negative outcomes including depression, delinquency, physical and sexual victimization, and substance use, are similar for these two groups. The sample consisted of 172 homeless young adults from the Midwestern United States. Multivariate results revealed that among those previously in foster care, a history of physical abuse and neglect were positively associated with more depressive symptoms whereas sexual abuse and neglect were related to delinquency and physical victimization. Additionally, lower caretaker monitoring was linked to greater delinquent participation. Among those without a history of foster care, physical abuse was related to more depressive symptoms whereas sexual abuse was positively correlated with delinquency, sexual victimization, and substance use. Furthermore, lower monitoring was related to more substance use. Our findings are discussed in terms of a social stress framework and we review the implications of foster care placement for homeless young adults.

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confidence: 86%

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Foster Care Placement, Poor Parenting, and Negative Outcomes Among Homeless Young Adults

Tyler

Melander

2010

J Child Fam Stud

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“…Thus, children in either type of kinship care may face a higher risk of maltreatment from their family of origin. Indeed, as many as a third of maltreatment allegations occurring while a child is in OHC care allege maltreatment by someone other than the foster caregiver, including the potential for retrospective allegations against a child’s family of origin (Poertner, Bussey, & Fluke, 1999; Tittle, Poertner, & Garnier, 2001). …”

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Are children safer with kin? A comparison of maltreatment risk in out-of-home care

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2015

Children and Youth Services Review

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“…Rosenthal, Motz, Edmonson and Groze (1991), Poertner, Bussey and Fluke (1999) and Hobbs, Hobbs and Wynne (1999) have documented the abuse and neglect of 6,878 children in out-of-home placements in Colorado, USA, Illinois, USA and Leeds, UK, respectively. As well as personal costs, out-of-home placements can add to public sector spending; for example, Barth, Lee, Wildfire and Guo (2006a) estimated the average cost of keeping a child in foster care in North Carolina, USA, at $16,000 per year in 1995, equivalent to $24,000 in 2011.…”

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Evaluation of serious case reviews and anti-racist practice

Bhatti‐Sinclair¹,

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Social Work in a Diverse Society

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Placing a child in out-of-home care is one of the most important decisions made by professionals in the child care system, with substantial social, psychological, educational, medical and economic consequences. This paper considers the challenges and difficulties of building statistical models of this decision by reviewing the available international evidence. Despite the large number of empirical investigations over a fifty year period, a consensus on the variables associated with this decision is hard to identify. In addition, the individual models have low explanatory and predictive power and should not be relied on to make placement decisions. A number of reasons for this poor performance are offered, and some ways forwards suggested. This paper also aims to facilitate the emergence of a coherent and integrated international literature from the disconnected and fragmented empirical studies. Rather than one placement problem, there are many slightly different problems, and therefore it is expected that a number of related sub-literatures will emerge, each concentrating on a particular definition of the placement problem.

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How safe are out-of-home placements?

Cited by 27 publications

References 3 publications

Foster Care Placement, Poor Parenting, and Negative Outcomes Among Homeless Young Adults

Foster Care Placement, Poor Parenting, and Negative Outcomes Among Homeless Young Adults

Are children safer with kin? A comparison of maltreatment risk in out-of-home care

Evaluation of serious case reviews and anti-racist practice

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