Intersection of race and religion for youth in foster care: examining policy and practice [PDF]
, 2019 Religion and race are primary forces affecting both individuals' identities and social relations. Consequently, their impacts on child welfare systems, and the clients of the system, are important to understand.
Collins, Mary E., Scott, Judith
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Current trends, figures and challenges in out of home child care: An internationalcomparative analysis [PDF]
Psychosocial Intervention, 2014 This article closes the special issue of this journal about an international review of out-of-home child care, principally family foster care and residential care, tough several aspects related to adoption were included as well.
Jorge F. del Valle, Amaia Bravo
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Child Protection and PracticeBackground: 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
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When Mamaw Becomes Mom: Social Capital and Kinship Family Formation amid the Rural Opioid Crisis
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2022 Amid the opioid crisis, the number of kinship families—or children living with relatives—has risen dramatically, particularly in rural communities. Using in-depth interviews with relative caregivers and local legal actors in Appalachian Kentucky, I ...
Kristina Brant
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Orphan Vulnerability, NGOs and HIV/AIDS in Ghana [PDF]
, 2011 This study explores orphan vulnerability following the rise in HIV/AIDS and the institutionalization of orphanages in Ghana, West Africa. Using traditional anthropological methods, including participant observation and interviews, I argue that ...
Voyk, Elaina
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Family health narratives : midlife women’s concepts of vulnerability to illness [PDF]
, 2008 Perceptions of vulnerability to illness are strongly influenced by the salience given to personal experience of illness in the family. This article proposes that this salience is created through autobiographical narrative, both as individual life story ...
Antje Lindenmeyer +9 more
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Address Terms Used by Online Shop Sellers to Their Female Teenage Customers and Young Mother Customers in Facebook [PDF]
, 2013 This study is about address terms used by online shop sellers to female teenage and young mother customers as well as their similarities and differences in Facebook.
Anggrawan, D. S. (Deviani) +1 more
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Children 'in need of care' or in need of cash? Questioning social security provisions for orphans in the context of the South African AIDS pandemic [PDF]
, 2003 Joint working paper of the Children's Institute and Centre for Actuarial Research, University of Cape ...
Meintjes, Helen +3 more
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Outliving Love: Marital Estrangement in an African Insurance Market [PDF]
, 2016 Marital estrangement and formal divorce are vital conjunctures for married women’s kinship relations and life course, where a horizon of future possibilities are revalued and negotiated at the interstices of custom, law, and social and ritual obligations.
Golomski, Casey
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SocietiesDespite a widespread focus on grandparents, a large proportion of kinship care in the UK is provided by older siblings. What drives older siblings to become kinship carers, and how this might differ from other kinship carers, is not well represented in ...
Lorna Stabler
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