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Manoeuvring Among Institutions and Pandemic Restrictions: When the Fantasy of Parenting After Divorce or Breakup and the Respective Emotions Matter

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding social factors that affected how people interpreted the meanings of COVID‐19 measures is important in postpandemic times. This study applies perspectives from research on emotions as one of the possible explanations and focuses on how institutions and their measures are perceived in the context of individual emotional situations.
Eva M. Hejzlarová
wiley   +1 more source

Divorcescapes: Family Conflicts and Children's Lived Spaces

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article presents an analysis from a project that focuses on the entanglements that emerge between practices within the family law system and the everyday lives of children in conflictual family law cases. We position our analysis in critical childhood studies and zoom in on the social–spatial dimensions of children's everyday lives by ...
Hanne Warming, Sarah Alminde
wiley   +1 more source

Children's Agency in Contact Disputes: Navigating Protection, Participation and Alienation

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how children's agency is framed, constrained and sometimes co‐opted within contested child arrangement proceedings, particularly in the context of alienation and coercive behaviours. Drawing on qualitative interviews with legal professionals in Northern Ireland, the study explores how statutory interventions, though well ...
Mairead McCormack
wiley   +1 more source

Exercising Agency for a Better Future: Adolescents in Korea's Kinship Care

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The literature on adolescents' perspectives on growing up in kinship care is limited. The study aims to explore the lived experiences of adolescents in grandparent kinship care by examining how they respond to adversity, build support and exercise agency. The study recruited 22 grandparent–adolescent pairs in a large Korean city.
Eunju Lee   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating Ambiguity: Considerations When Making Decisions on Out‐Of‐Home Placement of Siblings

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Policy‐makers and professionals recognize the importance of relationships between children and their family system and between children and their siblings in out‐of‐home placement. However, it is not always possible to keep siblings together; separation may be necessary for the child's normal development and even to protect the child's well ...
Vered Shenar‐Golan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Family‐Led Decision‐Making Meetings as an Alternative to Initial Child Protection Conferences: Findings From a Realist Evaluation of the Safeguarding Family Group Conferencing Pilot in England

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Safeguarding Family Group Conferencing (FGC) is a family‐led decision‐making process offered to some families in England as an alternative to an Initial Child Protection Conference when Children's Services have safeguarding concerns. A realist evaluation was conducted within three local authorities piloting this approach to build understanding
Bekkah Bernheim   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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