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Childhood adversity, adult homelessness and the intergenerational transmission of risk: a population‐representative study of individuals in households with children
Author(s) -
Cutuli J. J.,
Montgomery Ann Elizabeth,
EvansChase Michelle,
Culhane Dennis P.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
child and family social work
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.912
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1365-2206
pISSN - 1356-7500
DOI - 10.1111/cfs.12207
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , population , cumulative risk , demography , medicine , sociology
This study tested for associations between childhood adversity, adult homelessness and contexts of developmental risk in households with children. Data were drawn from the 2010 W ashington S tate B ehavioral R isk F actor S urveillance S ystem, representative of the population of W ashington S tate residents. Considering adults in households with children, those who experienced higher levels of childhood adversity were more likely to have experienced homelessness in adulthood. Meanwhile, a 10‐factor index of cumulative developmental risk was independently associated with childhood adversity and with adult homelessness. Adult homelessness appears to represent a circumstance through which past childhood adversities are brought forward and associated with contexts of developmental risk for subsequent generations of children.