Children's appraisals of their experiences in out-of-home care

Dena Miller Dunn, Sara E. Culhane and Heather N. Taussig

Children and Youth Services Review, 2010, vol. 32, issue 10, 1324-1330

Abstract: Few studies have asked children directly about their experiences in out-of-home care. This study uses data collected from 180 nine-to-11-year-old children currently in out-of-home care who were asked about their perceptions and appraisals of out-of-home care. Analysis of variance and chi-square analyses were used to examine whether children's appraisals of their lives following removal from their families of origin differ as a function of age, gender, race/ethnicity, type and severity of maltreatment, length of time in out-of-home care, placement type, attachment to current caregivers, and rating of current caregiver/home. Youth who were sexually and emotionally abused, youth who were satisfied with their current caregivers and placements, and girls were more likely to state that their lives would have been worse had they remained with their families of origin. Youth who were physically abused were more likely to report that their lives would have remained the same. Children living in group care were more likely than those living in family foster care or with kin to report that their lives would have been better had they remained with their families of origin. Differences were not found between children living in family foster care and those living with kin nor did children's appraisals differ based on age, race, ethnicity, length of time in out-of-home care, neglect, or severity of maltreatment.

Keywords: Foster; care; Kinship; care; Out-of-home; care; Appraisals; Child; maltreatment; Abuse; and; neglect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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