Parental Loss and Residential Instability: The Impact on Young Women from Low-Income Households in Detroit

Berman, Leslie; Snow, Rachel; Moorman, Jessica D.; Policicchio, Deena; Geronimus, Arline T.; Padilla, Mark

doi:10.1007/s10826-013-9852-9

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“…This study is part of a larger Ford Foundation-funded project titled "Economic Crisis, Residential Instability, and Changing Sexual Geographies of Detroit Youth," which seeks to examine and positively transform the structural conditions that contribute to sexual vulnerability among disadvantaged youth in Detroit (Berman et al 2013;Graham et al, 2013Graham et al, , 2014Lopez et al, 2012;Snow et al, 2013). Known locally as Detroit Youth Passages (DYP), this project is the result of collaboration between investigators from the University of Michigan School of Public Health and three communitybased organizations in Detroit: Alternatives For Girls, Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation, and the Ruth Ellis Center (REC), a nonprofit organization serving lesbian, gay, biattractional, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ).…”

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Interpersonal Relationships and Social Support in Transitioning Narratives of Black Transgender Women in Detroit

Graham

Crissman

Tocco

et al. 2014

International Journal of Transgenderism

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Interpersonal Relationships and Social Support in Transitioning Narratives of Black Transgender Women in Detroit

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Crissman

Tocco

et al. 2014

International Journal of Transgenderism

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“…For example, one qualitative study suggests that death of a parent during childhood or adolescence may increase risk for residential instability and homelessness, putting young women's long-term futures at risk (34). Another qualitative study found that the murder of close friends and relatives-a common life course experience for young black men-was often a turning point in behaviors, relationships, and outlooks (35).…”

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Death of family members as an overlooked source of racial disadvantage in the United States

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Olson

Crosnoe

et al. 2017

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Long-standing racial differences in US life expectancy suggest that black Americans would be exposed to significantly more family member deaths than white Americans from childhood through adulthood, which, given the health risks posed by grief and bereavement, would add to the disadvantages that they face. We analyze nationally representative US data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (n = 7,617) and the Health and Retirement Study (n = 34,757) to estimate racial differences in exposure to the death of family members at different ages, beginning in childhood. Results indicate that blacks are significantly more likely than whites to have experienced the death of a mother, a father, and a sibling from childhood through midlife. From young adulthood through later life, blacks are also more likely than whites to have experienced the death of a child and of a spouse. These results reveal an underappreciated layer of racial inequality in the United States, one that could contribute to the intergenerational transmission of health disadvantage. By calling attention to this heightened vulnerability of black Americans, our findings underscore the need to address the potential impact of more frequent and earlier exposure to family member deaths in the process of cumulative disadvantage.race | life expectancy | bereavement | family | disparities

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“…This study also finds that racial disparities in loss are greater for young blacks in urban than in non-urban areas. Berman and colleagues (2015) point to the possibility that death of a parent or caregiver may contribute to residential instability and homelessness for youth and might mean transitioning to more unstable and dangerous geographic areas following loss. Future research should further clarify how racial and ethnic disparities in exposure to loss vary across geographic contexts and how loss affects geographic relocation.…”

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Black Deaths Matter: Race, Relationship Loss, and Effects on Survivors

Umberson

2017

J Health Soc Behav

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Close relationships are a resource for mental and physical health that, like other social resources, is unequally distributed in the population. This article focuses on racial disparities in the loss of relationships across the life course. Racial disparities in life expectancy in the United States mean that black Americans experience the deaths of more friends and family members than do white Americans from childhood through later life. I argue that these losses are a unique type of stress and adversity that, through interconnected biopsychosocial pathways, contribute to disadvantage in health over the life course. I focus particularly on how the interconnected pathways associated with loss undermine opportunities for and increase risks to social ties throughout life, adding to disadvantage in health. I call on social scientists and policy makers to draw greater attention to this unique source of disadvantage for black children, adults, and families.

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Parental Loss and Residential Instability: The Impact on Young Women from Low-Income Households in Detroit

Cited by 12 publications

References 40 publications

Interpersonal Relationships and Social Support in Transitioning Narratives of Black Transgender Women in Detroit

Interpersonal Relationships and Social Support in Transitioning Narratives of Black Transgender Women in Detroit

Death of family members as an overlooked source of racial disadvantage in the United States

Black Deaths Matter: Race, Relationship Loss, and Effects on Survivors

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