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Care for Foster Children on the Move

Pediatrics, 1982
Schor is to be congratulated on his excellent article on foster care and health1 and his emphasis on the major deficiencies that exist for foster children in our current health-care system. I am also pleased to see that there was such a strong commentary on this issue by Sokoloff.2 I would, however, like to differ with one of Sokoloff's conclusions ...
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The Health of Children in Foster Care

The Journal of School Nursing, 2004
This qualitative study of school nurses describes what the nurses want to do for school children in foster care, what they are actually doing, and how the school organization affects the provision of care. The study looked at the nurses’ practice through the lens of the Social Ecological Model of Health, identified interventions using the Minnesota ...
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Foster Care Children with Disabilities

Journal of Health & Social Policy, 2002
Each year the number of children who enter the foster care system grows because the number of children who are vulnerable to abuse, neglect and/or poverty grows. Children with disabilities are a particularly vulnerable subset of this already vulnerable population.
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The challenges of fostering infants and children

Acta Paediatrica, 2003
There are various reasons for and ways of fostering infants and children in different parts of the world. In a traditional society, for example among Australian Aboriginals, children who have been subjected to catastrophes such as maternal death are taken care of in their extended families, whereas children in the Western world are fostered mainly ...
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The Foster Care System and Health Status of Foster Children

Pediatrics, 1982
The foster home care system is the most commonly used alternative for the care of dependent children in the United States. However, it often fails to achieve its objective of returning the child to his home or providing a permanent substitute family.
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Foster Care Children

Pediatrics, 1983
To the Editor.— Schor's article, "The Foster Care System and Health Status of Foster Children" (Pediatrics 1982;69:521) may well prove to be a landmark paper in social pediatrics. The related editorial by Sokoloff (Pediatrics 1982;69:649) provided invaluable advice as to how we, as pediatricians, can better serve children in foster care.
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Entering foster care: Foster children's accounts

Children and Youth Services Review, 1981
Abstract This paper examines children's accounts of the events leading up to their entry into foster care. Using C. Wright Mills' concept of vocabularies of motives, these accounts are treated as rationales with which informants explain deviant living arrangements to representatives of the dominant culture.
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The biological children of foster parents in the foster family

Child & Adolescent Social Work Journal, 1988
This paper derives from a study of 15 biological children of foster parents, ages 6–12. While foster children have quite properly been the subject of much investigation, practically no research has explored the reactions of the foster parents' own children to the fostering experience.
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OVERPROTECTED FOSTER CHILDREN?

Pediatrics, 1994
...about one-third of HIV-infected children in New York City... end up in foster care...It is ironic that the protections that were set up to protect disadvantaged and vulnerable groups like prisoners and children, particularly children in foster care, are actually limiting their options and their access to treatments [in clinical trials] that other ...
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Fostering Discovery with Children

The Arithmetic Teacher, 1954
When the assertion is made that arithmetic is being taught meaningfully, it is legitimate to ask how are meanings obtained by children. Axe meanings given to children by teachers and/ or textbooks through explanation, demonstration, and illustration, or are meanings being discovered by the pupils themselves with the aid of teachers and textbooks? These
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