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Alloparenting the investment child: A reply to responses
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Nina Bandelj
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Oral Health and Social Isolation After 6 Years: Mediation of Oral Functions
Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objectives Tooth loss was longitudinally associated with social isolation. The absence of dental prosthesis use was an additional risk factor. However, the mediating pathways for this association are unknown. The aim of this cohort study was to estimate the mediating effect of three oral functions: speaking, smiling and chewing observed at ...
Hazem Abbas +4 more
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Evolutionary Psychology, 2017 Human children are raised by a variety of caregivers including grandparents. A few studies have assessed potential differences in direct caregiving, financial expenditures, and emotional closeness between biological and step-grandparents.
Peter B. Gray, Elizabeth Brogdon
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Care Providers of Indigenous Children and Youth in the Child Welfare System: A Scoping Review
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Indigenous children continue to be significantly over‐represented in child welfare systems in Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. This scoping review represents a subset of a larger review, the objective of which was to consolidate the extant literature on Indigenous child welfare.
Amanda R. Ervin +6 more
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The changing role of grandparents [PDF]
Recent changes in family and society have meant that the roles grandparents take on have changed. Many grandparents are playing a bigger and more responsible part of grandchild care than they may have expected, which means additional pressures on their ...
Centre for Community Child Health
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Due to marketization, foster carers in many Western countries can choose between a number of local child welfare authorities (LAs) and independent fostering agencies (IFAs) to be contracted by. Through semi‐structured interviews with foster carers (n = 24), this study examined how foster carers navigate the Swedish foster care market and what ...
Evelina Fridell Lif
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Exercising Agency for a Better Future: Adolescents in Korea's Kinship Care
Child &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
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Based on 9 months of ethnographic research conducted in China, this study explores the experiences and attitudes of liushou children and their grandparents toward distant parenting, as well as the dynamic relationships they exhibit in interactions with migrant parents.
Kaidong Guo
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“Wasn’t in Our Game Plan”: Reflections of Older Grandparents Navigating Child Welfare Systems
SocietiesKinship caregivers encounter complex issues when interfacing with the child welfare system. Most kinship care families are not connected to child welfare.
Tina L. Peterson
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Grandparents raising grandchildren:Investigating factors associated with distress among custodial grandparent [PDF]
, 2015 Bell, R. Ryan +3 more
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