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Relative Versus Non-Relative Foster Care: [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This study explored the benefits and limitations of relative foster care versus non-relative foster care. This study hypothesized, that despite the limitations of relative placement, the emotional benefit to the child placed in a relative setting far ...
Picinich, Victoria
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Related Foster Parents Less Likely to Receive Support Services Compared With Nonrelative Foster Parents [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This brief identifies gaps in support services among foster parents using data from a nationally representative survey of children involved in the child welfare system (the second National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being).
Mattingly, Marybeth J., Walsh, Wendy A.
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Exploring young adults\u27 perspectives on communication with aunts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Women are typically studied as daughters, sisters, mothers, or grandmothers. However, many, if not most, women are also aunts. In this study, we offer a preliminary exploration of the meaning of aunts as familial figures.
Ellingson, Laura L.   +1 more
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Toward a True Kinship of Faiths: How the World’s Religions Can Come Together [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Traditional Beliefs in Postpartum Care among Indonesian and Filipino Mothers: A Comparative Study

open access: yesIberoamerican Journal of Medicine, 2021
Introduction: This study was conducted to assess the traditional beliefs and practices in postpartum care among Indonesian and Filipino mothers to propose a program to improve maternal and child health. Methods: The study utilized a descriptive research
Marni Siregar   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

De la solidarité aux menaces de mort : prise en charge des orphelins après le génocide des Tutsi 

open access: yesEnfances, Familles, Générations, 2023
Research Framework: This article is based on a PhD research in socio-anthropology about the transmission of familial memory among Rwandans living in France.
Domitille Blanco
doaj  

Researching the Linkages Between Social Protection and Children's Care in Rwanda: The VUP and its Effects on Child Well-Being, Care, and Family Reunification [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This research investigates the links between the Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme (VUP), child well-being, children's care and family reunification. It is part of a wider study on the linkages between social protection and children's care in Rwanda, Ghana ...
Helen Shelmerdine, Keetie Roelen
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Mapping intergenerational care across households in the UK: analysing proximity, propinquity and resources in the "tacit intergenerational contract" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Intergenerational exchanges of care form the backbone of informal care arrangements in the UK. Against a background of cuts in public spending and an increasingly ageing population, the centrality of familial or kinship care, in the provision of everyday
Coast, Ernestina   +2 more
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The relationship between kinship and foster placement on mental health indicators in children and youth seeking treatment

open access: yesChild Protection and Practice
Background: Children living in both kinship and foster care placements often face considerable adversity. It is possible that these placements can have differential impacts on children’s socioemotional, psychological, and educational outcomes and well ...
Shannon L. Stewart   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Developing family-based care : complexities in implementing the UN guidelines for the alternative care of children [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In response to immense challenges facing children in out-of-home care in all parts of the world, there is a growing international trend towards the development of family-based placements for children in out-of-home care, away from large-scale ...
Cantwell, Nigel   +4 more
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