Sacker, Amanda;
Murray, Emily;
Maughan, Barbara;
Lacey, Rebecca;
(2024)
Social care in childhood and adult outcomes. Double whammy for minority children?
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
, 15
(2)
pp. 139-162.
10.1332/17579597Y2023D000000008.
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Children in social care report poor outcomes in many aspects of their later lives. Less is known about differences by ethnicity. OBJECTIVE: We examined the health, socio-economic, family and living arrangements across the first three decades of adult life by the intersection of ethnicity (White, Black, South Asian) with social care. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING: Linked census and life events data for a 1% sample of the population of England and Wales in the ONS Longitudinal Study. Participants were dependent children in 1971–2001 (analytic sample n = 669,474). METHODS: Categorical regression models compared health, socio-economic circumstances, living arrangements and relationships, controlling for country of birth, childhood census year, childhood and adult age in years, gender, and head of household social class, qualifications, employment status and marital status. RESULTS: Adverse adult outcomes following social care in childhood were conditional on the interaction of social care with ethnicity, mainly in the socio-economic domain. For some outcomes the White group had the poorest outcomes: for example, 15% lower probability of being employed than other White people (65% versus 80%). Black adults with a history of social care did not differ from other Black adults, except for the lowest probability of acquiring their own home, while care-experienced South Asian adults did not differ from other South Asian adults. CONCLUSION: Minority ethnicity moderated the social care to adult outcomes relationship in both positive and negative ways. Overall, there was little evidence of intersectionality for Black children in social care affecting their life chances.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Social care in childhood and adult outcomes. Double whammy for minority children? |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1332/17579597Y2023D000000008 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1332/17579597Y2023D000000008 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Authors 2024. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | ethnicity; child; social care; follow-up study; census |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Epidemiology and Public Health |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10180145 |
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