2011
DOI: 10.1177/1440783311420793
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‘I remember thinking, why isn’t there someone to help me? Why isn’t there someone who can help me make sense of what I’m going through?’

Abstract: Recent years have seen a shift away from youth transitions being understood as a linear progression towards conventional goals. Instead, it is now argued that youth transitions tend to be highly chaotic, often involving non-linear and fragmented movement between dependence and independence. This article discusses how young people leaving the state care system are seldom afforded the luxury of a more gradual and non-linear transition. Instead, for them, the possibilities of adult futures remain marked by chroni… Show more

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“…In line with previous research, participants had high mental health needs (Dixon ; Lehmann et al., ; Meltzer et al., ) and they left the care system with feelings of distrust, isolation, abandonment (Rogers, ), instability (Unrau, Seita, & Putney, ), powerlessness and alienation. The number of moves they had to make in a short space of time and the lack of coordination of this added to their distress.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 80%
“…In line with previous research, participants had high mental health needs (Dixon ; Lehmann et al., ; Meltzer et al., ) and they left the care system with feelings of distrust, isolation, abandonment (Rogers, ), instability (Unrau, Seita, & Putney, ), powerlessness and alienation. The number of moves they had to make in a short space of time and the lack of coordination of this added to their distress.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 80%
“…For example, Rogers (2011) stated that foster youth and alumni are often "extremely protective and secretive" about having been in foster care (p. 416). This secrecy, in part, can be attributed to the negative stigma associated with being in foster care (Gilligan, 2000).…”
Section: Functionality and Accessibilitymentioning
confidence: 97%
“…Many researchers point to 'compressed transition' and lack of support in a vulnerable life situation, as main challenges that these young people face. Adolescence is a vulnerable period in life, often characterized by moving back and forth between dependency and independency (Bynner 2005;Rogers 2011), and this tension is one of the key questions in the research on transitions from adolescence to adulthood. There has been a shift away from young people's transition to adulthood being understood as a linear process toward conventional goals.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Such movement between dependency and independency is common in the youth population in general. But youths transitioning out of the child welfare system seem to experience an 'instant adulthood' and are not given the opportunity to experience such a gradual transition into adulthood (Geenen and Powers 2007;Rogers 2011;. 'Instant adulthood' not only includes the requirement to live independently but also removes these young people from the personalized and emotional support they may have received while in care (Rogers 2011).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%