highly significantp < 0.001
These variables are: firstly, the relationship with socially maladjusted peers, which has a positive and highly significant effect on the duration of child welfare trajectories ( β = 0.459, p < 0.001); it is followed by the school disengagement variable showing a direct and significant effect on the duration of the experience in the child welfare system ( β = 0.362, p < 0.05), followed, in third place, by the drug use variable, which was shown to have a direct effect on drug use ( β = 0.204, p < 0.01) on the number of programs in the child welfare system in which young people have participated. 4.