@article{ref1,
title="Sexual risk-taking among recently emancipated female foster youth: sexual trauma and failed family reunification experiences",
journal="Journal of research on adolescence",
year="2016",
author="Gonzalez-Blanks, Ana and Yates, Tuppett M.",
volume="26",
number="4",
pages="819-829",
abstract="Foster youth evidence shows elevated rates of risk behaviors, including sexual risk-taking (e.g., unprotected sex). Some studies have identified child maltreatment, particularly sexual abuse, as a risk for later sexual risk-taking, but none have examined how child welfare placement experiences relate to youth's sexual risk-taking. This study investigated relations among child maltreatment, child welfare placements, and sexual risk-taking among 114 recently emancipated female foster youth. Sexual abuse and failed reunifications with parents were associated with greater sexual risk-taking. Moreover, dissociative symptoms exacerbated the relation between sexual abuse and sexual risk-taking. These findings highlight the need for greater consideration of risks associated with emancipated youth's sexual risk-taking and for more research to understand how youth experience unsuccessful family reunifications.<br><br>© 2015 The Authors. Journal of Research on Adolescence © 2015 Society for Research on Adolescence.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1050-8392",
doi="10.1111/jora.12232",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jora.12232"
}