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

Religions
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, Raisuyah Bhagwan, Fathima Dewan   +2 more
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Doing One’s Best

Grounded Theory Review: An International Journal, 2020
A kinship family is one where a family member, other than a biological parent, is primarily re- sponsible 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
doaj  

Kinship Care

, 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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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
doaj  

Kinship Care for the Safety, Permanency, and Well‐being of Children Removed from the Home for Maltreatment: A Systematic Review

Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2014
This Campbell systematic review examines whether kinship care is more effective than foster care in ensuring the safety, permanency and wellbeing of children removed from their home for maltreatment.
Marc Winokur, Amy Holtan, Keri E. Batchelder   +2 more
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Kinnecting Caregivers to Services, Resources, and Supports: Findings from an RCT of Colorado’s Kinship Navigator Program

Societies
This study reflects the evidence-building journey for the Colorado Kinnected kinship navigator program. Colorado Kinnected expands the scope of services, resources, and supports offered to kinship families through an innovative approach that enhances an ...
Greg Forehand, Marc Winokur, Lauren Alessi, Sunil Butler, Jeannie Berzinskas   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Socio-Developmental Network Analysis: Establishing a Research Method to Examine Socio-Contextual Dynamics of Children in the Mockingbird Family^TM

Social Sciences, 2023
In recent years, social network analysis has had its own distinctive theoretical and methodological underpinnings. This article proposes a novel method for the application of a fused mixed-methods approach and social network analyses that incorporates ...
Emi Patmisari, Helen McLaren, Michelle Jones   +2 more
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Exploratory study of risks to stability in foster and kinship care in NSW [PDF]

, 2013
This report describes an exploratory study on various aspects and risks to stability in foster and kinship placements.The report finds that compared to foster care, risks to placement stability are more evident for kinship care.
Marilyn McHugh
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Protein Disulfide Isomerase Disassembles TDP‐43/G3BP1 Condensates and Antagonizes TDP‐43 Pathological Aggregates

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Cytoplasmic aggregation of TDP‐43 is a common pathological feature in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, and Alzheimer's disease with TDP‐43 pathology. This study reports that wild‐type PDI slows down phase separation of TDP‐43 through direct interaction with TDP‐43.
Jia‐Qi Liu, Hao Liu, Yu‐Xuan Sun, Yuying Li, Xiangyi Liu, Li‐Qiang Wang, Zhaofei Yang, Qi Fu, Xiaojiao Xu, Jie Chen, Yingshuang Zhang, Jun Zhou, Weidong Le, Mengchao Cui, Yi Liang   +14 more
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Natural Variation of NAR5 Determines Nitrogenase Activity and the Yield in Soybean

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study identified NAR5, a gene encoding a subtilisin‐like protease, that regulates nitrogenase activity in soybean nodules. Overexpressing NAR5 delayed nodule senescence, enhancing nitrogenase activity, yield, and low‐nitrogen tolerance. The elite haplotype NAR5HapI‐1 linked to superior nitrogenase activity and greater seed weight has been ...
Chao Ma, Hanyu Zhao, Haojie Feng, Xulun Dong, Lin Chen, Mingliang Yang, Runyi Chen, Chengjun Lei, Chunyan Liu, Qingshan Chen, Dawei Xin, Jinhui Wang   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source