Understanding The Unique Online Challenges Faced By Teens In The Foster Care System

Keywords

Foster Care; Foster Parents; Foster Teens; Online Safety; Qualitative Methods

Abstract

While there has been much research studying technology in family contexts, little to no research has explored the challenges and risks faced online by teens and their parents in foster care situations. To address this gap, we have begun to conduct in-depth, semi-structured interviews with foster parents of teens. Our preliminary findings suggest that teens in foster care situations face unique offline challenges (e.g., victims of sex trafficking or rape) that make them more vulnerable to online risks. In addition, foster parents struggle with managing the high-risk online behavior of their foster teens. The purpose of this paper is to present our early findings to help unpack the challenges and the problem context for online safety for "at-risk" adolescents in the foster care system.

Publication Date

2-25-2017

Publication Title

CSCW 2017 - Companion of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Number of Pages

139-142

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1145/3022198.3026314

Socpus ID

85016068366 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85016068366

This document is currently not available here.

Share

COinS