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Kinship Care and Child Protection in High-Income Countries: A Scoping Review. [PDF]
Trauma Violence Abuse, 2023 Kinship care is a global phenomenon with a long history, which in high-income countries (HICs) at least, is being increasingly formalized through legislation and policy.
Hallett N, Garstang J, Taylor J.
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In Loco Parentis: Informal Kinship Care in Australia—Social Benefit and Material Poverty [PDF]
Societies, 2023 Informal kinship care families in Australia are a large, hidden population. This article provides an overview of international research and policy developments regarding informal kinship care and considers their relevance to Australia.
Meredith Kiraly
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Assessment in Kinship Foster Care: A New Tool to Evaluate the Strengths and Weaknesses [PDF]
Social Sciences, 2014 Placement in kinship family has existed informally throughout time. There are many countries in which kinship family care is the most common measure used for child protection. However, it is a subject of continuous debate. One of the major issues is that
Nuria Fuentes-Peláez +4 more
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‘That's the bloodline’: Does Kinship and care translate to Kinship care?
Australian Journal of Social Issues, 2022 AbstractKinship for First Nations people is a fundamental, yet complex, element of one's culture, enabling both belonging and relationality, and extending beyond blood family and relations. Kinship is also recognized as important within out‐of‐home care (OOHC) systems, with kinship care being the predominant OOHC placement type in Australia (AIHW, 2021)
James C. Beaufils
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Childhood in Kinship Care [PDF]
, 2022 Kinship foster care involves placing children who cannot live at home in foster care with other members of their family or close network. This book sheds light on different aspects of kinship care development and practice. Using a 20-year longitudinal research study from Norway, this book shows the historical development of kinship care in Norway ...
Skoglund, Jeanette +2 more
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Social work, 2022 A relative caregiver (commonly called a kinship caregiver) is rearing about 10 percent of children in the United States. While relative caregivers are typically a child’s grandparent, they can also be other relatives (e.g., aunts, uncles, siblings, cousins) or fictive kin (e.g., godparents). The most prevalent care arrangement is classified as informal,
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Safeguarding the Rights of Children Living in Kinship Care in South Africa
Potchefstroom Electronic Law JournalBy the early 2000s the practice of using the foster care system as a measure to subsidise the income of families who cared for the children of relatives was firmly entrenched in South Africa.
Hanneretha Kruger
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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Developmental Outcomes among Korean Kinship Foster Care Children: Gender Differences [PDF]
Societies, 2023 (1) Background: This study explored changes before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of developmental outcomes among kinship foster care children in the Republic of Korea: and gender differences in the changes; (2) Methods: The study analyzed the
Hyunah Kang, Ick-Joong Chung, Sehyeon Oh
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A License to Abuse? The Need for National Policy Reform of Kinship Care Licensing Procedures
Columbia Social Work Review, 2012 The last 20 to 30 years have seen a significant rise in the use of kinship care as a formal out-of-home placement option for abused or neglected children in the government’s custody.
Amanda Prater
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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.
Marla Gottlieb Zwas
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