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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

Young People Raised by Grandparents and Parents or Single Parents

open access: yesPsicologia, 2010
The last three decades were characterized by changes in family structures, which influenced the relationship between grandparents, parents and grandchildren in situations of care.
Cristina Maria de Souza Brito Dias   +2 more
doaj  

Maternal and Paternal Extended Family Support Among Children in Foster Care: Associations With Internalizing Symptoms Trajectories

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Prior work suggests that children who are supported by their extended family kinship network experience fewer internalizing problems, with most of this support coming from the maternal side of the family. However, less is known about the unique contributions to well‐being associated with maternal versus paternal extended family support among ...
Kimberly R. Davenport   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How kin help with parental investments

open access: yes
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Aliya Hamid Rao
wiley   +1 more source

Listening to Children's Need to Matter in Skipped Generation Migrant Households: A Study in Rural Hunan, China

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the experiences of children who live in skipped generation households because of parental migration. Drawing on our matched interviews with 34 children and 20 grandparents from 19 skipped generation households in rural Hunan, central China, we examine what the children wanted significant adults to know about their care ...
Rachel Murphy, Li Mi, Xiaoyan Huang
wiley   +1 more source

The unbearable (financial) burdens of parenting

open access: yes
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Alya Guseva
wiley   +1 more source

Who Is a Sibling? Social Work Professionals' Views on Definitions of Siblinghood in Foster Care in England

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When children are placed in foster care, social work professionals decide whether they should and can be placed with their siblings. In England, this has become an important discussion within social work, as research has highlighted both the value of sibling co‐placement and the extent to which it often does not happen.
Florie J. E. Schmits, Esther Dermott
wiley   +1 more source

Alloparenting the investment child: A reply to responses

open access: yes
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Nina Bandelj
wiley   +1 more source

Promotion of Emotional Competencies in Auxiliary Grandparents Caregivers: A Pilot Prevention Programme

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examined the efficacy of a 5‐week combined psychoeducation and support programme aimed at enhancing emotional competencies and psychological well‐being among Spanish auxiliary grandparent caregivers. Two delivery formats (face‐to‐face and synchronous online) were compared with a control group receiving no intervention, and ...
Cristina Noriega   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Grandchildren raised by grandparents a troubling trend

open access: yesCalifornia Agriculture, 2001
This study was conducted in response to requests for demographic and needs data on children living with grandparents in California and elsewhere. The 1990 U.S.
M Blackburn
doaj   +1 more source

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