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Childhood Adultification in Economically Disadvantaged Families: A Conceptual Model
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Abstract:This article presents an emergent conceptual model of childhood adultification and economic disadvantage derived from 5 longitudinal ethnographies of children and adolescents growing up in low‐income families. Childhood adultification involves contextual, social, and developmental processes in which youth are prematurely, and often inappropriately, exposed to adult knowledge and assume extensive adult roles and responsibilities within their family networks. Exemplar cases from the ethnographies are integrated in the discussion to illustrate components of the model. Four successive levels of adultification are described: precocious knowledge, mentored‐adultification, peerification/spousification, and parentification. The developmental assets and liabilities children incur also are discussed. Recommendations for school, health care, and social service practitioners working with low‐income families and children are provided.
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- Authors
- Burton, L.
- Affiliations
- Duke University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Burton, Linda
- Venue
- Family Relations
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2007-09-06
- Volume
- 56
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 329-345
- ISSN
- 0197-6664 (ISSN-L)
- 1741-3729
- OpenAlex
- W2169267182
- Cited by
- 438
- References
- 68
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- FWCI
- 39.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Family Relations (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Demography › Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Keywords
- economic disadvantage, low-income households, parentification, child development, conceptual model, children and adolescents
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