Identifying divergent foster care careers for Danish children |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Social Work, Stockholm University, Sweden;2. Centre for Health Equity Studies Stockholm University/Karolinska Institutet, Sweden;1. School of Public Health and Social Work, Faculty for Health, Queensland University of Technology, PO Box 5492, West End 4101, Australia;2. Child and Youth Mental Health Service, Children''s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service, Queensland Health, PO Box 5492, West End 4101, Australia;3. School of Public Health and Social Work, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane 4001, Australia;4. School of Health, University of New England, Armidale 2351, NSW, Australia;5. School of Psychology and Counselling, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane 4001, Australia |
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| Abstract: | Foster care children who experience placement disruption and foster care instability are at elevated risk for a host of poor outcomes, yet little work considers what these unstable foster care careers look like or what causes them. In this article, I start by using previous studies on foster care drift, instability, and placement disruptions to define the unstable foster care career as a subset of foster care careers. I then use administrative data on 30,239 Danish children born 1982–1987 who entered foster care to generate nine foster care careers, two of which meet the criteria for an unstable career. Children with a high number of risk factors associated with foster care entry were also the most likely to enter an unstable career. I end by discussing implications for recent studies of the effect of foster care on children's later life outcomes and the relevance of the findings for practitioners. |
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| Keywords: | Administrative data Foster care Instability Sequence analysis |
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