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CAPITALISM, KINSHIP, AND FRAUD The Case of Bernie Madoff [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Investment broker Bernie Madoff ran what is still considered the largest Ponzi scheme in history, defrauding thousands of investors over a 20-year period of more than $20 billion.
Ortner, Sherry B
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Realising Aboriginal Community Controlled Approaches to Child Reunification

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reunification rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) in Australia are critically low, even though reunification is the preferred permanency outcome for children following removal, and despite a range of mechanisms and strategies ostensibly to support effective reunification. To better understand the
B. J. Newton   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The lateral septum mediates kinship behavior in the rat

open access: yesNature Communications, 2020
Kinship behavior in rodents has been documented in the laboratory setting but the neural mechanisms that mediate kinship behavior are not known. Here, the authors show that the lateral septum has a key role in organizing mammalian kinship behavior.
Ann M. Clemens   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

DNA-Based Kinship Analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Relatedness between individuals and groups can be investigated using DNA markers. A child’s DNA profile is a combination of alleles passed down from the father and mother.
Maguire, Christopher, Woodward, Michael
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Culturally Safe Assistive Technology Provision in Australia: Concept Mapping Perspectives From Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disparities in Assistive Technology (AT) access exist for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples despite recent policy reforms. This paper brings together First Nations and Western academic ways of being, knowing and doing to deliver an AT practice analysis based upon primary data from two research reports into the cultural safety of AT
Shane Hearn   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of African Spirituality in the Provision of Kinship Care in the South African Context

open access: yesReligions
This article focuses on understanding the role played by African spirituality in the provision of kinship care in the South African context. African traditional spirituality was found to be an important factor underpinning kinship care and its provision,
Langa Mshayisa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Color of Kinship [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This Article addresses the need for family law scholarship that better theorizes and grapples with how race informs American life in the 21st Century. Family law scholars have been instrumental in documenting and advocating for recognition of the “new ...
Lenhardt, Robin A.
core   +1 more source

Receiving, or ‘Adopting’, Donated Embryos to Have Children: Parents Narrate and Draw Kinship Boundaries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Existing research suggests that embryo donation (ED) may be seen as similar to adoption by those who donate or receive embryos, or it may not. Our qualitative study explored whether having a child via embryo donation initiated kinship connections between
Golombok   +12 more
core   +3 more sources

Owning Home, Finding Belonging: Relational Meanings of Homeownership for Migrant Healthcare Workers in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
wiley   +1 more source

THE FORMS OF KINSHIP TERM IN MINANGKABAULANGUAGE USED BY NAGARI SIMAWANG SOCIETY

open access: yesTell-us Journal, 2019
This article aims to describe the forms of kinship term in Minangkabau language used by society in NagariSimawang. The data are collected by using questionnaire, interview, cross check, elicitation, recording, and note taking.
Mauli Denil
doaj   +1 more source

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