Impact of poverty and adversity on perceived family support in adolescence: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT: Emotional support from family members may have an important effect on adolescent health outcomes, and has been identified as a target for policy to protect against the impacts of poverty and other early life adversities. However, few studies have assessed the extent to which poverty and adversity themselves influence the nature of emotional support that parents can provide to adolescents. We, therefore, aimed to investigate the impact of trajectories of income poverty and family adversities, including parental mental ill health, alcohol misuse and domestic violence across childhood developmental stages on young people's relationships with their families and perceived emotional support received. We analysed longitudinal data on 10,976 children from the nationally representative UK Millenniu

SUBMITTER: Adjei NK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11424735 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature