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Abandonment

Although children who are abandoned tend to be infants or young children (who are called foundlings), abandonment still is important to consider when studying the period of adolescence. Abandonment potentially relates to adolescents in two major ways. First, abandonment is relevant to adolescents in that they can be abandoned or in that the feeling of being abandoned leads youth to leave their parents by, for example, running away from their homes (Thompson et al. 2008). Second, abandonment is relevant to adolescents because they may be at risk for abandoning their own children. These propositions may be true but, regrettably, research on abandonment is considerably inadequate and does not support them conclusively. For example, researchers and policy makers lack reliable statistics regarding how many children are abandoned, their basic characteristics and situations, as well as the characteristics of those who abandon them. Even the most comprehensive federal statistics...

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Completion of this essay was facilitated by support from the NRSA\NIMH Research Fellowship in Functional Disability Interventions (T-32-MH062994).

This essay is drawn from the author’s book The Means to Grow Up: Reinventing Apprenticeship as a Developmental Support in Adolescence (Routledge 2009).

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