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Wilson, Helen W.; Widom, Cathy Spatz – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2009
This study examines prostitution, homelessness, delinquency and crime, and school problems as potential mediators of the relationship between childhood abuse and neglect (CAN) and illicit drug use in middle adulthood. Children with documented cases of physical and sexual abuse and neglect (ages 0-11) during 1967-1971 were matched with…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Homeless People, Delinquency, Child Abuse
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DuMont, Kimberly A.; Widom, Cathy Spatz; Czaja, Sally J. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2007
Purpose: This paper examines individual, family, and neighborhood level predictors of resilience in adolescence and young adulthood and describes changes in resilience over time from adolescence to young adulthood in abused and neglected children grown up. Method: We use documented cases of childhood physical and sexual abuse and neglect (n = 676)…
Descriptors: Ecological Factors, Sexual Abuse, Neighborhoods, Living Standards