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Are grandparents raising grandchildren receiving the services they need?
Journal of Childhood, Education & Society, 2021 Grandparents play an important role in the upbringing of grandchildren and face increased levels of stress. Using family stress theory, the present study examined the effectiveness of service programs for grandparents raising grandchildren.
Karleah Harris +3 more
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Children, 2023 This article sets out key issues in determining and upholding the best interests of children, in need of social service support, who have family networks that span outside of the UK. These issues are then analysed against whether and how child protection
Brian Littlechild, Carolyn Housman
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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. +24 more
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NOW THE SOLUTION IS HERE – SOCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR ORPHANED CHILDREN: THE EXTENDED CHILD SUPPORT GRANT
Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 2023 The current crisis in foster care was precipitated by using the child protection system to meet the social assistance needs of orphaned children. The new parallel system in the form of an extended child support grant system would enable children in the ...
Sipho Sibanda, Felistus Ndamba
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When Kinship Caregivers Became Teachers: Role Stress and Strain from Remote Learning during COVID-19
Societies, 2023 For caregivers of school-age children, schooling at home was a significant stressor during the COVID-19 pandemic. Research demonstrates the emotional burden of taking on the role of teacher while trying to balance responsibilities related to work ...
Amanda Klein-Cox +2 more
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Pediatrics, 2020 The child welfare system strives to provide children and adolescents in foster care with a safe, nurturing environment through kinship and nonkinship foster care placement with the goal of either reunification with birth parents or adoption ...
V. F. Jones, E. Schulte, D. Waite
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Experimental evidence for kin-biased helping in a cooperatively breeding vertebrate [PDF]
, 2001 The widespread belief that kin selection is necessary for the evolution of cooperative breeding in vertebrates has recently been questioned. These doubts have primarily arisen because of the paucity of unequivocal evidence for kin preferences in ...
Andrew F. Russell +2 more
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Ethiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities, 2020 The study is about international kinship care arrangements in Ethiopia, focusing on Ethiopian children who applied for an Australian Orphan Relative Visa. A qualitative case study research method was used. Study participants
Asnakech Tesfaye, Ashenafi Hagos
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Who cares? The grandmother kinship carers shouldering the burden within a gendered care economy
Journal of Women & Aging, 2022 It is estimated that around half of all kinship carers in the UK are grandparents. International studies show that when broken down by gender, these carers are predominantly grandmothers.
J. Birchall, A. Holt
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EXPLORING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY IN A SPECIFIC SOCIAL AND CULTURAL SYSTEM [PDF]
Social Sciences and Education Research ReviewKinship is considered a fundamental gateway to understanding patterns of social, cultural, and organizational interaction. The kinship term also represents a crucial structure within the prevalent kinship system in society.
Dalila LALAOUNA, Ammar SIDIDRIS
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