Economic insecurity in young adulthood among children maltreated during early adolescence.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Children living in foster care as teenagers often experience greater economic insecurity during adulthood than their peers. However, few studies examine the association between foster care entrance during early adolescence and later economic outcomes.

Objective

Examine whether entrance into foster care in early adolescence is associated with employment, monthly earnings, and participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) relative to an observationally similar counterfactual population.

Participants and setting

Using statewide administrative data from Wisconsin, I limited my study population to early adolescents exposed to alleged maltreatment between ages 10 through 13 who return to the home or achieve permanency by age 18. Economic s

SUBMITTER: Caniglia M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11512671 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature