Evicted children and subsequent placement in out-of-home care: A cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evictions may have serious consequences for individuals' health and wellbeing. Even though an eviction may be experienced as a significant crisis for the family, there is little previous knowledge on consequences for evicted children. This study represents the first attempt to examine to what extent children from evicted households were separated from their parents and placed in out-of-home care (foster family or residential care) using population-based data, net of observed confounding factors related to the socioeconomic and psychosocial circumstances of their parents.

Methods

This study takes advantage of information from a Swedish national database, consisting of about 8 000 evicted individuals and a random sample of 770 000 individuals from the national popul

SUBMITTER: Berg L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5905888 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature