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- Title
Resilience and Survival: Black Teenage Mothers 'Looked After' by the State Tell their Stories About their Experience of Care.
- Authors
Mantovani, Nadia; Thomas, Hilary
- Abstract
'Looked after' young people are among the most disadvantaged members of our society. While their disadvantaged status should not be ignored, poor outcomes are often emphasised at the expense of good ones. This article reports a study that adopts the concept of resilience to understand the narratives of the participants' experience of care and foster care. A total of 15 young mothers, aged 16-19 and mainly from black African backgrounds, were interviewed. Despite lacking a 'secure base', informants invested in a sense of moral identity and a source of self-directedness, which enabled them to move from victim of circumstances to individuals who overcome their circumstances.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; TEENAGE mothers; FOSTER home care; SELF-efficacy; POLITICAL refugees; PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience; UNACCOMPANIED refugee children; BLACK youth; AFRICANS; TEENAGERS; YOUTH services; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Children & Society, 2015, Vol 29, Issue 4, p299
- ISSN
0951-0605
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/chso.12028