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Examining Financial Hardship and Caregiver Subgroups in Kinship Foster Placements: A Machine Learning Approach

open access: yesSocieties
Children placed with kinship foster parents can experience less disruption and stronger family ties than children in non-kinship placements. However, financial hardship can restrict kinship caregivers from taking in relatives’ children.
Imani Careese Johnson   +3 more
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Psychosocial well-being in adulthood in response to systemic barriers in kinship care as experienced during adolescence

open access: yesInternational Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 2019
This study reports on the experiences of Black adults who were raised in kinship care during adolescence and its influences on their psychosocial well-being in adulthood.
Lynne Goldschmidt   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Child Welfare [PDF]

open access: yes
This study uses nationally representative survey data to describe differences in characteristics, adverse family experiences, and child well-being among children in kinship care with varying levels of involvement with the child welfare system. Well-being

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Social security, care and the "withdrawing state" in rural Russia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This chapter presents the development of a research project, exploring the ways in which social security is produced and experienced in rural Russia. Based on a case study of Burla village, the project investigates the ways in which caring practices and ...
Kay, R.
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Regulating Reprogenetics: Strategic Sacralisation and Semantic Message [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This paper forms part of the feminist critique of the regulatory consequences of biomedicine's systematic exclusion of the role of women's bodies in the development ofreprogenetic technologies.
Mackenzie, Robin
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An Exploratory Typology for Understanding Family-Relationship Issues in Kinship-Care Placements

open access: yesSocieties
Family relationships are a distinctive feature of kinship-care placements, but very few studies have examined how the dynamics of these relationships affect the placement experience.
Amilie Dorval   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gender, care and families: their plots and intersections

open access: yesMediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2018
Considering the centrality that the notion of relatedness or relationality (Carsten, 2000 and 2004) have acquired in contemporary research that deals with family and kinship, as well as the important analytical yields of the notion of care (HIRATA and ...
Sabrina Finamori   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gender and Empowerment: Contemporary Lakota Women of Rosebud [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Western-European stereotypes still permeate Plains Indian culture suggesting that women were passive and subjugated while men were dominant warriors.
Mello, Christina G.
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Human kin detection [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Natural selection has favored the evolution of behaviors that benefit not only one's genes, but also their copies in genetically related individuals. These behaviors include optimal outbreeding (choosing a mate that is neither too closely related, nor ...
Boklage CE   +9 more
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