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The wellbeing of foster children and their relationship with foster parents and biological parents: a child’s perspective [PDF]
Journal of Social Work Practice, 2015 Most Dutch foster children live permanently in foster families. It is often assumed that foster children have ambivalent loyalties and attachments to their birth parents and foster parents and are torn between the two. In this study 59 children between 10 and 18 years placed in long term foster care completed standardized questionnaires on the ...
Maaskant, A.M. +3 more
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Moral Dilemmas in Foster Care Due to Religious Differences Between Birth Parents, Foster Parents, and Foster Children [PDF]
Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 2022 AbstractMany ethnoreligious-minority foster children in several western countries, including the Netherlands, are placed and permanently live with ethnically and religiously non-matched foster families (i.e., in trans-religious foster care). We examine whether and which moral dilemmas exist around the issue of how religion should be weighted in trans ...
Diana D. van Bergen +4 more
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GROOTMOEDERS IN KAYAMANDI SE ERVARING VAN FAMILIEPLEEGSORG
Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 2006 Pleegplasings by familie as vorm van substituutsorg, is die vinnigs groeiende kindersorgdiens in die Verenigde State van Amerika (voorts genoem die VSA) as gevolg van ’n afname in geskikte pleegouers (Wilson & Chipunga, 1996:387).
Dora van Rensburg, Sulina Green
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CIRCUMSTANCES OF FOSTER CHILDREN AND THEIR FOSTER PARENTS AFFECTED BY HIV AND AIDS
Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 2010 Problems in families and children really begin when a member in the family becomes infectedwith the HI virus (Smit, 2007:8). According to Stine (2007:261), there does not appear to be animmediate end to either the spread of HIV infection or the ...
Adri Roux +2 more
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Lubelski Rocznik Pedagogiczny, 2021 Introduction: Children in a foster family have a difficult life situation. This is a challenge for both foster parents and teachers. Cooperation based on shared commitment and understanding gives the child a chance to gain positive life experiences.
Urszula Bartnikowska +1 more
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Qualitative Research in Education, 2020 Informal learning is understood as a complex emotional, cognitive and experiential process of learning during which the personal change of learner takes place.
Ramune Bagdonaite-Stelmokiene +1 more
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International Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies, 2015 This study investigated differences in the experiences of Canadian foster parents providing regular and treatment foster care and their consideration to withdraw from their position.
Jessica Smith +5 more
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Social Welfare: Interdisciplinary Approach, 2017 The article introduces the significance of social worker's assistance to prospective foster parents: a case of an X Lithuanian town. The best place for the child development and improvement is the family. For some reasons not all the children are raised
Irena Leliūgienė +2 more
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Adoption, Fostering, and Parental Absence in Vanuatu
Human Nature, 2023 AbstractAlloparenting, wherein people provide care to children who are not their biological offspring, is a key aspect of human child-rearing. In the Pacific, many children are adopted or fostered by custodial alloparents even when both biological parents are still alive.
Eva Brandl, Emily H. Emmott, Ruth Mace
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THE DESIGN OF A PROTOCOL FOR ASSESSING PROSPECTIVE FOSTER PARENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA
Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 2016 This paper reports on the development of a contextually appropriate protocol in social work for the assessment of prospective foster parents in South Africa.
Carter, Juliet, Van Breda, Adrian
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