Discordant patterns and adulthood consequences of childhood maltreatment and foster care placement by Martin Eiermann, Garrett Baker, and Christopher J. Wildeman (2025)
Social Forces Abstract: Child maltreatment and foster care placement are common, unequally distributed, and consequential for life-course outcomes. Yet, little is known about how foster care placements vary across children who experience different types and frequencies of maltreatment, and about the adulthood consequences of experiencing specific combinations of maltreatment and foster care placement. In this …