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Safeguarding the Rights of Children Living in Kinship Care in South Africa
Potchefstroom Electronic Law JournalBy the early 2000s the practice of using the foster care system as a measure to subsidise the income of families who cared for the children of relatives was firmly entrenched in South Africa.
Hanneretha Kruger
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Biological versus Foster Children Education : the Old-Age Support Motive as a Catch-up Determinant ? Some Evidence from Indonesia [PDF]
This paper aims at explaining differences in education among foster-children and between foster and biological children in developing countries. Foster-children whose biological parents are alive may provide old-age support for both their host and ...
Karine Marazyan
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Twice the Opportunity: Policy Recommendations to Support Expectant and Parenting Youth in Foster Care and Their Children [PDF]
, 2014 In 2011 the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP), with funding from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, commenced an effort to draw attention to the urgent and unmet needs of one of the more vulnerable populations in our society: youth in foster care ...
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.An overview of design principles and scalable fabrication strategies for multifunctional bio‐based packaging. Radiative cooling films, modified‐atmosphere films/membranes, active antimicrobial/antioxidant platforms, intelligent optical/electrochemical labels, and superhydrophobic surfaces are co‐engineered from material chemistry to mesoscale structure
Lei Zhang +6 more
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Child Welfare: An Overview of Federal Programs and Their Current Funding [PDF]
, 2014 Child welfare services are intended to prevent the abuse or neglect of children; ensure that children have safe, permanent homes; and promote the well-being of children and their families. As the U.S.
Stoltzfus, Emilie
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.An active learning framework, grounded in independently generated in‐house experimental data, enables reliable discovery of high‐performance interfacial materials for perovskite solar cells. Iterative model refinement autonomously converges toward structurally robust quaternary ammonium architectures, establishing a new design principle for interfacial
Jongbeom Kim +8 more
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Historical Perspectives on Foster Care Payments: Changing Practices During the 20th Century
Social InclusionPayment of foster carers has long been a controversial issue, reflecting the question of whether fostering is a voluntary or professional activity. This article explores explanations for the change that took place during the twentieth century concerning ...
Ann-Sofie Bergman
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Time for Reform: Aging Out and On Their Own [PDF]
, 2007 This report describes how the current foster care system fails to provide a permanent family for every child and the difficulty children have staying connected to family and friends while in foster care.
Madelyn Freundlich
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.The energetic offset between the donor and the acceptor components in organic photoactive layers is central to the tradeoff between photovoltage and photocurrent losses. This Perspective covers the most important issues surrounding this topic in non‐fullerene acceptor blends, from the difficulty of accurately determining state energies and driving ...
Dieter Neher, Manasi Pranav
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SPECIAL LABOUR LAW PROTECTION FOR FOSTER PARENTS AND THE CHILD IN THEIR CARE
PravoThe labour law implications of establishing foster care are reflected in the special protection granted to foster parents in employment. This protection is designed to ensure, with additional and intensive support from society, that a child without ...
Dragana Radovanović
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