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Doing One’s Best: Becoming a Kinship Caregiver

Grounded Theory Review: An International Journal, 2020
A kinship family is one where a family member, other than a biological parent, is primarily responsible for the child. In-depth, unstructured interviews with kinship caregivers and children from 15 kinship families were conducted to gain a thorough ...
Kara Vander Linden, Catherine J. Tompkins   +1 more
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The Impact of STR Mutations on Kinship Identification

Fayixue Zazhi
Kinship identification is an important field of forensic genetics research, which can be widely applied in inheritance disputes, criminal investigations, and the identification of victims in major disaster cases.
LIU Jing, WANG Zheng, HOU Yi-ping, LIAO Lin-chuan   +3 more
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'She's like a daughter to me': insights into care, work and kinship from rural Russia [PDF]

, 2013
This article draws on ethnographic research into a state-funded homecare service in rural Russia. The article discusses intersections between care, work and kinship in the relationships between homecare workers and their elderly wards and explores the ...
Borneman J., Bowlby S., Caldwell M., Carsten J., Dedova I., Dedova I., Dedova I., Finch J., Gordin V. E., Hochschild A., Kay R., Kay R., Kingfisher C., Lapidus G. W., MacDonald C. L., Nikulin A., Rebecca Kay, Risseuw C., Stone D., Thelen T., Thelen T., Ungerson C., Ungerson C., White A., Zdravomyslova E.   +24 more
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Deconstruction of the Ethics of Blood Kinship from the Pespective of a New Ethic of Family Kinship in Wise Children

Interlitteraria, 2018
Angela Carter’s masterpiece, Wise Children, highly controversial as it is, represents a strikingly new perspective on ethics, namely, the family ethic of non-blood kinship.
Pang Yanning
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Toward a True Kinship of Faiths: How the World’s Religions Can Come Together [PDF]

, 2018
Toward a True Kinship of Faiths: How the World’s Religions Can Come Together His Holiness the Dalai Lama New York: Doubleday Religion ...
Balmer, Brice
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Effects of pedigree errors on the efficiency of conservation decisions [PDF]

, 2009
Conservation schemes often aim at increasing genetic diversity by minimizing kinship, and the best method to achieve this goal, when pedigree data is available, is to apply optimal contributions.
Bijma, P., Oliehoek, P.A.
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Kinship Foster Care: A Relatively Permanent Solution [PDF]

, 1993
Kinship foster care is intended to provide substantially the same standard of care as children receive in placement with unrelated foster parents. In practice, however, the two differ enormously in New York City.
Zwas, Marla Gottlieb
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Actually existing Chinese matriarchy [PDF]

, 2008
The essays in this volume present contemporary anthropological perspectives on Chinese kinship, its historical complexity and its modern metamorphoses. The collection draws particular attention to the reverberations of larger socio-cultural and politico ...
Stafford, Charles
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Population Structure and Cryptic Relatedness in Genetic Association Studies [PDF]

, 2009
We review the problem of confounding in genetic association studies, which arises principally because of population structure and cryptic relatedness. Many treatments of the problem consider only a simple ``island'' model of population structure. We take
Astle, William, Balding, David J.
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Kinship and Fictitious Kinship in Eastern China

Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford
An ethnographic account of 1936 from a village in Jiangsu Province, eastern China, reports that one feature of social life there was the extensive use of kinship terms to designate almost everyone living in the village, despite a lack of genuine ...
Göran Aijmer
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