Trajectories of Economic Disconnection among Families in the Child Welfare System.

ABSTRACT: This study examined economic disconnection, an extreme case of economic exclusion in which families lack both employment and cash assistance, among families in the child welfare system. To build hypotheses about the intersection of the child welfare system and economic disconnection we used a multilevel framework that considers federal policy, local practice, and processes within families. We hypothesized that child welfare intervention has the potential to be a mechanism of economic inclusion or exclusion for vulnerable families, with implications for family reunification. We utilized a novel administrative data set containing data from three state agencies to construct income histories of parents relative to their child's placement in foster care (N = 15,159 parents). We identifie

SUBMITTER: Hook JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8057729 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature