Childhood Adultification in Economically Disadvantaged Families: A Conceptual Model*

By Linda M. Burton. 2007

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Demography, Sociology and Political Science

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Parentification and mental health symptoms: mediator effects of perceived unfairness and differentiation of self (2013, background): “…that increased engagement in parentification tasks has associations with a variety of negative outcomes for the parentified individual (for example, Burton, 2007; Chase et al., 1998; Hooper et al., 2008, 2011; Hooper and Wallace, 2010; Jurkovic et al., 2001; Stein et al., 1999; Wells and Jones,…”
“You Never Become Fully Independent”: Family Roles and Independence in First-Generation College Students (2018, background): “Specific family roles have been documented extensively in literature on parentification, a role reversal wherein a child takes on a parental role in their family (Burton, 2007; Gilford & Reynolds, 2011; Hooper, Wallace, Doehler, & Dantzler, 2012).”
Memorable Messages of Hard Times: Constructing Short- and Long-Term Resiliencies Through Family Communication (2012, background): “In contrast, Burton (2007) described the unintended “information exposure” that led to the harmful consequences of adultification.”
Annual Research Review: What is resilience within the social ecology of human development? (2013, background): “…by western bias that defines appropriate roles for children despite the evidence that immigrant youth may do better developmentally when they remain enmeshed with their families and are required to compensate for weaknesses in their parents (Burton, 2007; Walsh, Shulman, Bar-On, & Tsur, 2006).”
The Arts and Education: Knowledge Generation, Pedagogy, and the Discourse of Learning (2008, background): “Research by L. Burton (2007), on adultification of children, where young children take on the responsibilities and personas of adults in the household, and by Spencer (2006), on resilience among high school youth, are but a couple of poignant studies of how students persist.”
Resilience, Trauma, Context, and Culture (2013, background): “studies of urban mothers from disadvantaged communities who use very authoritarian styles of parenting compensate for the risks posed to their children living in a disadvantaged community (Burton, 2007).”
PARENTAL ALIENATION AND THE DYNAMICS OF THE ENMESHED PARENT–CHILD DYAD: ADULTIFICATION, PARENTIFICATION, AND INFANTILIZATION (2011, background): “Adultiﬁcation has been documented among impoverished families (Burton, 2007), immigrant families (Puig, 2002; Walsh, Shulman, Bar-On, & Tsur, 2006), and victims of domestic violence (Stephens, 1999).”
Poverty and the American Family: A Decade in Review (2010, background): “Burton (2007) conducted a meta-analysis of five qualitative studies of children in lowincome families and found significant evidence for ‘‘adultification’’—when parents expose children to adult knowledge and/or expect them to take on responsibilities usually reserved for adults. Similarly, Dodson an”