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  Family RelationsVolume 56 Issue 4, Pages 329 - 345 Published Online: 6 Sep 2007 © 2009 by the National Council on Family Relations Published on behalf of the National Council on Family Relations
Abstract | References | Full Text: HTML, PDF (Size: 184K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking  Childhood Adultification in Economically Disadvantaged Families: A Conceptual Model* Copyright 2007 by the National Council on Family Relations KEYWORDS accelerated life course • childhood adultification • ethnography • low-income families • parentification • poverty ABSTRACTAbstract: 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 which youth are prematurely, and often inappropriately, exposed to adult knowledge and assume extensive adult roles and responsibilities within their family networks. Exemplar cases from the ethnographies are integrated in the discussion to illustrate components of the model. Four successive levels of adultification are described: precocious knowledge, mentored-adultification, peerification/spousification, and parentification. The developmental assets and liabilities children incur also are discussed. Recommendations for school, health care, and social service practitioners working with low-income families and children are provided. Received: 27 June 2007; Accepted: 31 August 2007; | 
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