Objective: Youth who emancipate from the foster care system often experience poor
outcomes during their transition into independent living (eg, criminal justice involvement and …

Young people who grow up in care and then exit care around the age of 18 (care-leavers)
are a particularly vulnerable group, at increased risk for mental health problems even …

Recently there has been a fundamental shift toward greater federal responsibility for
supporting foster youth during the transition to adulthood. The Fostering Connections to …

High levels of intimate partner violence among youth and young adults with history in foster
care can perpetuate the cycle of violence and abuse. It is therefore important to understand …

Relationship continuity and social learning theories provide support for parent-to-child
aggression as one potential explanatory factor for dating abuse (DA); however, empirical …

Prevalence of dating violence (DV) is increasing, so the detailed study of the related factors
can help to intervene in it more specifically. This study had three goals: to analyse the …

Purpose Intimate partner violence (IPV) interventions for young people involved with the
child welfare and legal systems are critical. However, researchers have yet to systematically …

Objective: As described by the intergenerational transmission and relationship continuity
frameworks, witnessing aggression between one's parents is theoretically related to …

Youth aging out of child welfare systems face an abrupt transition to adulthood and
expectation for self-sufficiency with few supports. The current study represents a scoping …

Objective Sexual behavior presents risks, particularly among vulnerable groups such as
adolescents with child welfare system involvement. This study compares the prevalence of …