This project aims to examine the experiences of care leavers who became parents (of cohort members) and the intergenerational impact on their children’s outcomes, from childhood into early adulthood. The research uses information from the 1970 British Cohort Study and the Millennium Cohort Study
Project title | Long-term outcomes for care-experienced parents and children: Evidence of risk and resilience from two British cohort studies |
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Project lead | Dr Sam Parsons |
Team | Professor Ingrid Schoon and Professor Emla Fitzsimons |
Themes | Child development |
Dates | March 2021 – September 2023 |
Funder | Nuffield Foundation – visit the project page on the Nuffield Foundation website. |
Summary |
What are the socioeconomic and psychosocial resources available to female care-leavers who became mothers? It is well documented that the experience of out-of-home care can lead to more problematic post-16 transitions and poorer adult outcomes. This new research examines the experiences of care-leavers who become mothers.
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Phone: 020 7612 6882
Email: sam.parsons@ucl.ac.uk
Sam has a long history of producing research based on the British Birth Cohorts, from the antecedents and consequences of poor basic skills in adult life, to more recent research focusing on poorer outcomes for children with Special Education Needs, the gendered occupational occupations of teenagers and the long-term advantages for men and women who attended a private school and/or an elite university.
Phone: 020 7331 5129
Email: E.Fitzsimons@ucl.ac.uk
Emla is the Director of the UK Millennium Cohort Study, a longitudinal birth cohort study following children born at the turn of the new century. Her research is focused on the development of human capital throughout the life course, and in particular how experiences and circumstances in early life and childhood affect causally the acquisition of skills later on.