Childhood Maltreatment Predicts Poor Economic and Educational Outcomes in the Transition to Adulthood
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2018
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American journal of public health
Abstract
Objectives. To test whether childhood maltreatment was a predictor of (1) having
low educational qualifications and (2) not being in education, employment, or training
among young adults in the United Kingdom today.
Methods. Participants were from the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin
Study, a nationally representative UK cohort of 2232 twins born in 1994 to 1995. Mothers
reported on child maltreatment when participants were aged 5, 7, 10, and 12 years.
Participants were interviewed about their vocational status at age 18 years.
Results. The unadjusted odds of having low educational qualifications or of not being
in education, employment, or training at age 18 years were more than 2 times greater
for young people with a childhood history of maltreatment versus those without. These
associations were reduced after adjustments for individual and family characteristics.
Youths who reported having a supportive adult in their lives had better education
outcomes than did youths who had less support.
Conclusions. Closer collaboration between the child welfare and education systems is
warranted to improve vocational outcomes for maltreated youths.
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child maltreatment, long term effects, effects, educational attainment
Citation
Jaffee, S. R., Ambler, A., Merrick, M., Goldman-Mellor, S., Odgers, C. L., Fisher, H. L., ... & Arseneault, L. (2018). Childhood Maltreatment Predicts Poor Economic and Educational Outcomes in the Transition to Adulthood. American journal of public health, 108(9), 1142-1147.