As 18-year-olds, placed young people have far worse conditions for getting into adulthood than their peers.
Many struggle as young adults with serious problems such as self-harm, abuse and poor well-being.
This is shown by a new report by researchers from Vive, the National Research and Analysis Center for Welfare. Here it is examined how things go in the early adult life of placed children born in 1995.
Especially those who were placed after they turned 15, struggle with great challenges, says Signe Frederiksen. She is a researcher at Vive and one of the authors of the report.
– They often have a self-harming behavior and have attempted suicide. They have also often used drugs, and they have that at an earlier age than others, and then they have a norm-breaking behavior and poor mental health, she says.
The concept of norm-breaking behavior covers, among other things, that the young people have stolen from shops or committed vandalism or violence.
Up to half of those placed late have a psychiatric diagnosis, while this only applies to six percent of other young people.
In addition, a large proportion of them did not receive any preventive help or support before they were placed outside the home, it appears.
– Overall, this makes it a difficult group to help into adulthood, says Signe Frederiksen.
Nearly 3,000 children born in 1995 have been placed outside the home, while 3190 have received various preventive measures without being placed.
More children are placed late in Denmark than other countries we typically compare ourselves with, says Signe Frederiksen.
About one-third of the placed children born in 1995 were placed after the age of 15.
The municipalities can offer aftercare to former inmates who receive help to build an independent life on an equal footing with other young people.
It can be help with where to live or how to manage financially.
But here, too, the late-placed children pull the shortest straw.
– It is especially the most vulnerable young people with psychiatric diagnoses and those without education and jobs who are without aftercare as 18-year-olds, says Signe Frederiksen.
This is shown by a new report by researchers from Vive, the National Research and Analysis Center for Welfare. Here it is investigated how it goes in the early adult life of placed children born in 1995.
Especially those who were placed after they turned 15, struggle with great challenges, says Signe Frederiksen. She is a researcher at Vive and one of the authors of the report.
– They often have a self-harming behavior and have attempted suicide. They have also often used drugs, and they have that at an earlier age than others, and then they have a norm-breaking behavior and poor mental health, she says.
The concept of norm-breaking behavior covers, among other things, that the young people have stolen from shops or committed vandalism or violence.
Up to half of those placed late have a psychiatric diagnosis, while this only applies to six percent of other young people.
In addition, a large proportion of them did not receive any preventive help or support before they were placed outside the home, it appears.
– Overall, this makes it a difficult group to help into adulthood, says Signe Frederiksen.
Nearly 3,000 children born in 1995 have been placed outside the home, while 3190 have received various preventive measures without being placed.
More children are placed late in Denmark than other countries we typically compare ourselves with, says Signe Frederiksen.
About one-third of the placed children born in 1995 were placed after the age of 15.
The municipalities can offer aftercare to former inmates who receive help to build an independent life on an equal footing with other young people.
It can be help with where to live or how to manage financially.
But here, too, the late-placed children pull the shortest straw.
– It is especially the most vulnerable young people with psychiatric diagnoses and those without education and jobs who are without aftercare as 18-year-olds, says Signe Frederiksen.
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