Childhood Adultification in Economically Disadvantaged Families: A Conceptual Model.

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 whic...

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Published in:	Family Relations Vol. 56; no. 4; pp. 329 - 346
Main Author:	Burton, Linda
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell October 2007
Subjects:	Families & economics Parent-child relationships Child development
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost