 Socioeconomic vulnerability and housing insecurity: A critical factor in child care in SpainJuan David Gómez-Quintero, Jesús García Martínez and Lina Maldonado Children and Youth Services Review, 2020, vol. 114, issue C Abstract: In this research we analysed 515 cases of Spanish households who lost their homes or were at risk of losing them as a result of mortgage arrears, in the midst of the serious economic crisis that hit Spain between 2008 and 2013. In the cases we examined a large number of children were evicted from their homes, with a high inherent risk of housing-related neglect. We assessed the main factors behind this risk of child neglect amongst families caught up in judicial eviction proceedings. This was done via a multivariant statistical analysis involving multiple correspondences and dimension reduction. The results show that certain socioeconomic characteristics of the families are risk factors to lose their home. The main risk factors include the employment situation of the main provider and the type of family. These factors proved much more significant than other variables such as nationality or living above or below the poverty line. Child benefit payments seemed to have little impact in terms of preventing or mitigating the effects on children of losing their home. Keywords: Child care; Eviction; Housing insecurity; Housing instability; Spain (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:114:y:2020:i:c:s0190740919314082 DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105021 Access Statistics for this article Children and Youth Services Review is currently edited by Duncan Lindsey More articles in Children and Youth Services Review from Elsevier |
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