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Child Welfare Workers' Assessments of Suspected Violence in the Context of Family Law Disputes

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Information about violence in the family can be challenging for child welfare (CW) workers to assess when parents are simultaneously involved in a family law dispute. The aim of this study is to analyse how assessments of suspected violence in the family are described in CW investigations in Sweden when the child's parents are involved in a ...
Gabriella Alner Knutsson   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Expectations and Concerns of Adoptive Families of Children With Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is considered a condition that persists throughout life in people who have been exposed to alcohol during the gestation period. During the different stages of their lives, individuals with FASD face different challenges and adversities that—without the right resources and strategies—can contribute to ...
Dídac Gómez‐Santabrígida   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Handcuffed Parenthood’: Parents of Young At‐Risk Children Who Were Removed From Their Homes in East Jerusalem

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Parents of children who were removed from home are generally under‐researched, and there is a shortage of knowledge concerning their perceptions and experiences, particularly in complex contexts. Using a context‐informed perspective and intersectionality theory, this study aims to better understand the experiences of parents regarding their ...
Mayis Eissa, Anat Zeira
wiley   +1 more source

Mothering Through the Experiences of Homelessness With a Particular Focus on Child Separation in High‐Income Countries: A Scoping Review

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mothers who experience homelessness represent one of the most vulnerable and marginalized groups, often facing separation from their children as a consequence of housing instability and intersecting challenges. While there is a substantial body of research on parenting in the context of homelessness, little is known about the experience of ...
Olayinka Ariba   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exercising Agency for a Better Future: Adolescents in Korea's Kinship Care

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The literature on adolescents' perspectives on growing up in kinship care is limited. The study aims to explore the lived experiences of adolescents in grandparent kinship care by examining how they respond to adversity, build support and exercise agency. The study recruited 22 grandparent–adolescent pairs in a large Korean city.
Eunju Lee   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Negotiating Responsibility: Professionals' Perspectives on Separated Parents' Protective Duties in the Swedish Context

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores how social workers perceive and enact informal protective arrangements in the context of Swedish child protection. Drawing on group interviews with practitioners, the findings reveal that social workers underline parents' legal obligation and duty to protect their children, which means that the safe parent is expected to ...
Emma Rindeskog, Lupita Svensson
wiley   +1 more source

Children in shared physical custody in Belgium and Italy - Final transversal report of the MobileKids project

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This report summarizes the main results of the ERC Starting Grant project "MobileKids: Children in multi-local, post-separation families", funded by the European Research Council and led by prof. Laura Merla. This sociological research aims to understand how Shared physical custody (SPC), and the mobility and multilocality that result from this type of
Merla, Laura   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

Navigating Ambiguity: Considerations When Making Decisions on Out‐Of‐Home Placement of Siblings

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Policy‐makers and professionals recognize the importance of relationships between children and their family system and between children and their siblings in out‐of‐home placement. However, it is not always possible to keep siblings together; separation may be necessary for the child's normal development and even to protect the child's well ...
Vered Shenar‐Golan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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