Risk child

As risk child or more times (also in German-speaking) at-risk child or child at risk are referred to in sociology children who are subject to increased risk to develop negative. This usually means that they resort to drugs, become criminals or only acquire low qualifications in school, i.e. become deviant in social work .

In adolescents, it is called risk youth , at-risk youth or youth at risk .

risk groups

The children at risk include:

• Children who suffer from child poverty
• Children born prematurely or after a high-risk pregnancy
• Children affected by dyslexia
• Children with a parental addiction background, with consequent physical and emotional experiences of violence

Technical criticism of this term

It is discussed whether the choice of the term “ child at risk” or “ youth at risk ” is not already being attributed in the sense of a hereditary risk. The social problem is therefore mostly not the risk child / risk child , but also and above all in the environment and social policy .

literature

• Stephan Ellinger, K. Koch, Joachim Schroeder: Children at risk in all-day school . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2007.
• Stephan Ellinger: Risk factors of the wider social environment . In: B. Gasteiger-Klicpera, H. Julius, C. Klicpera (Eds.): Special pedagogy of social and emotional development . Hogrefe, Göttingen 2007. (Handbook of Special Education Vol. 3), pp. 112–127.
• Bernhard Meyer Probst: From birth to 25. What happens to children at risk? . In: Christoph Leyendecker, Tordis Horstmann (ed.): Early support and early treatment. Scientific basics, practice-oriented approaches and perspectives for interdisciplinary cooperation . Heidelberg 1997.

See also

• Resilience (psychology)
• Vulnerability

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Child at Risk! - Child! Endangered! Downloaded December 6, 2007
2. ↑ Lebenshilfe Duisburg Download on December 6, 2007
3. ↑ 27% are children at risk ( memento of the original from September 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Downloaded December 6, 2007 
4. ↑ Michael Klein and Martin Zobel: Prevention and early intervention in children from addictive multi-problem families (1996–1999)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed January 20, 2008)