Journal articles: 'Foster parents’ children'

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Hamilton, Leslie S., and Victor W. Harris. "Beyond Expectations: From Foster Children to Foster Parents." International Journal of Education 10, no. 1 (2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ije.v10i1.12147.

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Little research exists on long-term outcomes for adults who have been in foster care as children, with even less research on former foster children who become foster parents themselves. Foster care and maltreatment exert significant independent and interdependent impacts on youth outcomes. While traditional research often focuses on predicting and mitigating negative outcomes, new studies indicate success using a positive youth development approach that is strengths-based targeting positive outcomes, such as strong empathy skills. These outcomes align with the demonstrated skills that lead to successful foster parenting. The current review examines the possible transition from foster child to foster parent through the lenses of parenting styles, attachment, and family systems theories, as well as positive youth development and social justice youth development theories. The authors propose utilizing theory and proven interventions to address foster youths’ attachment and emotional development needs, recognize positive outcomes for youth in foster care, and employ evidence-based training programs in place for at-risk parent groups to help break the cycle that leads to displacement. The need for more research to assist foster children, parents, case workers, and systems to promote healthy youth development is discussed.

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Schormans, Ann Fudge. "Experiences Following the Deaths of Disabled Foster Children: “We Don't Feel Like ‘Foster’ Parents”." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 49, no. 4 (2004): 347–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/pmpx-5jww-7lab-c9le.

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Foster parents in the child welfare system occupy a unique position in our culture. While expected to parent and provide safe, loving, and normative family experiences to a child removed from her/his family of origin, they are, simultaneously, expected to remember that they are not the child's biological parent. Increasingly, foster parents are being asked to care for children with severe disabilities that sometimes precipitate an early death. How do foster parents experience the death of a foster child with disabilities in their care? Semi-structured interviews with bereaved foster parents revealed foster parents' self-identification as “parents” who shared “parent/child” relationships with foster children whom they considered to be part of their families. The foster parents' experience of the death of the foster child with a disability was reported comparable to the death of a birth child, however, their identification as legitimate grievers was often disenfranchised by others.

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Dainichi, Yoshiharu. "Do Foster Parents Consider Their Foster Children Family Members?" Kazoku syakaigaku kenkyu 32, no. 1 (2020): 33–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.4234/jjoffamilysociology.32.33.

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Foreman, Lily, and Albert Foreman. "Foster Parents Helping Children to Move." Adoption & Fostering 9, no. 2 (1985): 54–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030857598500900215.

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RENDE TAYLOR, LISA. "PATTERNS OF CHILD FOSTERAGE IN RURAL NORTHERN THAILAND." Journal of Biosocial Science 37, no. 3 (2004): 333–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021932004006790.

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Evolutionary theory guides an investigation of foster parent selection in two northern Thai villages with different biosocial environments: one village has high levels of labour migration and divorce, and growing numbers of parental death due to HIV/AIDS, while the other village has lower migration, divorce and parental mortality levels. Focus groups examine mothers’ and fathers’ motivations and ideals regarding foster caretaker selection, and quantitative family surveys examine real fostering outcomes: specifically, the laterality (matrilateral versus patrilateral) and genetic distance of the foster caretakers of all ever-fostered children in these two villages. As predicted, in environments of high marital stability and paternity certainty, parents seem to prefer close genetic kin from either side as foster parents for their children. In low marital stability and paternity certainty environments, parents trust their own lateral kin, regardless of genetic distance, over close genetic kin from the other side. The striking exception to this pattern, however, occurs in the case of parental death, in which case children are fostered to the deceased parent’s kin, regardless of the child’s sex or other factors. In general, the foster parents for girls are selected with more care, reflecting the daughter/female preference expected in traditionally matrilineal, matrilocal societies. An ordered decision-making pathway for foster parent selection is proposed, taking into consideration the key factors of (a) the circumstances driving the fostering decision, (b) the gender of the child, (c) the gender of the key decision-making parent, and (d) the degree of marital and population fluidity (and subsequent paternity certainty) in the village.

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Frimpong-Manso, Kwabena, Ishmael Tagoe, and Stella Mawutor. "Experiences of Formal Foster Parents in Ghana: Motivations and Challenges." Southern African Journal of Social Work and Social Development 32, no. 1 (2020): 18. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2415-5829/6529.

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In Ghana, the reform of the child welfare system is shifting the care of orphans and vulnerable children from residential care to foster care. However, the system has faced difficulties in recruiting foster parents. Therefore, this qualitative research explored the motivations and challenges of foster parents in Accra, Ghana. A total of 15 foster parents took part in semi-structured interviews that were analysed using an inductive thematic approach. The study found that the participants undertook the role of fostering because of their love for children, religious and social obligations, and satisfaction of personal goals. Challenges experienced by the foster parents included stigma, financial challenges, and emotional issues as a result of fostering children. The recommendations of the study which aim to help in dealing with the challenges that confront foster parents include the provision of financial resources, sensitisation campaigns to reduce the stigma, and the creation of foster parent associations to help with the emotional issues.

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Rosenwald, Mitchell, and Laura Bronstein. "Foster Parents Speak: Preferred Characteristics of Foster Children and Experiences in the Role of Foster Parent." Journal of Family Social Work 11, no. 3 (2008): 287–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10522150802292376.

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Antle, Becky F., Anita P. Barbee, Bibhuti K. Sar, Dana J. Sullivan, and Kirsten Tarter. "Exploring Relational and Parental Factors for Permanency Outcomes of Children in Care." Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 101, no. 2 (2019): 132–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1044389419881280.

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This research examined the impact of individual and relational characteristics of foster parents on permanency outcomes for children in care. Previous research has focused on child and case characteristics. The sample consisted of 233 foster parents from the public child welfare system surveyed at the end of a training. The results of the surveys showed that couple relationship quality and altruism were predictive of reunification of foster children with biological parent. The significant predictors of placement in a residential facility were age, education, and avoidant attachment style of the foster parent. Practice and policy implications are discussed.

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Golding, Kim. "Developing Group-Based Parent Training for Foster and Adoptive Parents." Adoption & Fostering 31, no. 3 (2007): 39–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030857590703100306.

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Parent training interventions are among the best-researched strategies to improve the adjustment of children within their families. In 2006, group-based parent training interventions were further promoted by the publication of guidance from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the revised edition of Drawing on the Evidence (British Psychological Society, 2006). This guidance endorses parent training based on Social Learning Theory as an intervention to help children with conduct disorder. It provides helpful advice on the process of parent training that might also be applicable to training for foster and adoptive parents. Kim Golding explores the development of parent training for helping parents and carers of children living in foster care and adoptive homes. The difficulties that some of these children display are complex and enduring. Parent training programmes, as part of a package of care, may be a helpful intervention for children demonstrating challenging behaviours within the context of neurodevelopmental difficulties and poor early attachment experience.

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Ćwirynkało, Katarzyna, and Urszula Bartnikowska. "Dzieci z rodzin zastępczych w szkole. Raport o współpracy rodziców zastępczych z personelem szkoły." Problemy Wczesnej Edukacji 43, no. 4 (2018): 77–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.26881/pwe.2018.43.07.

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Children and youth from foster families more often – in comparison to general population – have disabilities, emotional and behavioural disorders (Minnisi in. 2006). Also, in their history of life they often experienced abuse and/or neglect, which may influence their later achievements (Kolankiewicz 2009; Bartnikowska, Ćwirynkało 2016). Foster parents often deal with challenges connected to raising their children. The paper is a research report in which the authors investigate the perceptions of foster parents concerning their cooperation with teachers and school personnel. In order to achieve this aim an interpretivist paradigm and phenomenographic method (Paulston 1993) was applied. Three focus group interviews were conducted with 21 foster parents of children and youth at school age. A qualitative analysis (Charmaz 2009) resulted in the identification of two thematic areas of parents’ perceptions of: (1) division of responsibility (perception of the role of a foster parent and school personnel in the process of their children’s education), (2) positive and negative aspects of foster parents’ experiences in the cooperation with school (personal and organizational level). Based on the results, recommendations on how to improve the cooperation between school and foster parents are proposed.

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Lind, Teresa, K. Lee Raby, E. B. Caron, Caroline K. P. Roben, and Mary Dozier. "Enhancing executive functioning among toddlers in foster care with an attachment-based intervention." Development and Psychopathology 29, no. 2 (2017): 575–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954579417000190.

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AbstractYoung children in foster care often experience adversity, such as maltreatment and lack of stability in early caregiving relationships. As a result, these children are at risk for a range of problems, including deficits in executive functioning. The Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up for Toddlers (ABC-T) intervention was designed to help foster parents behave in ways that promote the development of young children's emerging self-regulatory capabilities. Participants included 173 parent–toddler dyads in three groups: foster families that were randomly assigned to receive either the ABC-T intervention (n= 63) or a control intervention (n= 58), as well as low-risk parent–toddler dyads from intact families (n= 52). At a follow-up conducted when children were approximately 48 months old, children's executive functioning abilities were assessed with the attention problems scale of the Child Behavior Checklist (Achenbach & Rescorla, 2000) and a graded version of the Dimensional Change Card Sort developed for preschoolers (Beck, Schaefer, Pang, & Carlson, 2011). Results showed that foster children whose parents received the ABC-T intervention and low-risk children never placed in foster care had fewer parent-reported attention problems and demonstrated greater cognitive flexibility during the Dimensional Change Card Sort than foster children whose parents received the control intervention. These results indicate that an attachment-based intervention implemented among toddlers in foster care is effective in enhancing children's executive functioning capabilities.

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Bartnikowska, Urszula, and Katarzyna Ćwirynkało. "Relacje małżeńskie w opinii rodziców adopcyjnych i zastępczych wychowujących dziecko z niepełnosprawnością." Men Disability Society 2, no. 36 (2017): 75–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0010.5202.

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Raising a child with a disability is a challenge for many parents. So is raising a child in a foster/adoptive family. In both cases, parents have to deal with unusual situations that may weaken or strengthen their relationship with each other. Dealing with fulfilling the role of a foster/adoptive parent of a child with a disability can be a challenge which may affect the relationship between the spouses. Available literature does not provide, however, much in-depth information on foster families raising children with disabilities. The article presents the results of qualitative research whose aim was to show the relationship between adoptive/foster parents raising children with disabilities. The study involved parents from 20 adoptive and foster families.

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Kaplan, Carol P. "The biological children of foster parents in the foster family." Child & Adolescent Social Work Journal 5, no. 4 (1988): 281–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00755392.

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Capps, Jennifer E. "Strengthening Foster Parent–Adolescent Relationships Through Filial Therapy." Family Journal 20, no. 4 (2012): 427–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1066480712451245.

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The purpose of this article is to explore the application of filial therapy as a means of strengthening relationships between foster parents and adolescent foster children. Adolescents in foster care experience a number of placement disruptions and while a number of therapeutic interventions are implemented to assist adolescents in foster care, very few are aimed at strengthening the foster parent–foster child bond. Studies have repeatedly shown filial therapy as an effective method for strengthening parent–child relationships. Filial therapy is discussed as an intervention for improving the relationship between adolescents in foster care and their foster parents. A review of the literature is presented as well as a description of filial therapy and the adaptations necessary to implement filial therapy with adolescents and their foster parents.

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Zajac, Lindsay, K. Lee Raby, and Mary Dozier. "Receptive Vocabulary Development of Children Placed in Foster Care and Children Who Remained With Birth Parents After Involvement With Child Protective Services." Child Maltreatment 24, no. 1 (2018): 107–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077559518808224.

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Children who experience maltreatment are more likely than nonmaltreated children to demonstrate deficits in early receptive language skills that negatively impact their later academic achievement, social competence, and behavioral adjustment. It remains unclear whether placement in foster care affects children’s early receptive language skills. In the current study, we examined whether children with Child Protective Services (CPS) involvement who were in foster care ( n = 176) had more advanced receptive vocabulary than children with CPS involvement who resided with their birth parents ( n = 144). Results demonstrated that children in foster care had higher receptive vocabulary scores at ages 36 and 48 months than children who stayed with their birth parents. Group differences were not significant after controlling for caregiver education level, marital status, and household income. These findings suggest that placement in foster care may be associated with meaningful improvements in children’s receptive vocabulary among children with experiences of CPS involvement, and birth parents might benefit from increased supports to promote parent–child interactions that facilitate language development.

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Tamášová, Viola, and Silvia Barnová. "Coping with Adversity in the Lives of Children in Foster Care." Acta Educationis Generalis 9, no. 1 (2019): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/atd-2019-0001.

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Abstract Introduction:The theoretical-empirical study is based on two particular case studies of families bringing up children from institutional care. It deals with the real needs of foster families, with the foster parents’ perception of fostering and their experiences from the time spent with children in foster care, about the children’s behaviour in adverse situations, which the foster parents must deal with in the period of the child’s adaptation to the new environment of their households. The authors accentuate the importance of communication and emotional education from the aspect of personality development of children placed into new families. These children should be prepared for moving from a known into an unknown environment. In the conclusions, the authors give several specific recommendations within the framework of semantic categories dealt with in the chapters and subchapters of the study. Methods:The study is based on a theoretical analysis of the presented issues. For the purposes of the research, the following research methods were used - Content analysis of official documents (job description of social workers in foster family care). - Case studies of two clients of the offices of Social and Legal Protection of Children and Social Curatorship in the field offices of Central Office of Labour, Social Affairs and Family in Nitra and Bratislava Self-Governing Regions carried out in 2018. - Logical operations - analysis, synthesis, comparison. - Interviews with foster carers (Family 1 and Family 2) carried out throughout the whole year 2018. - Generalization in semantic categories which, at the same time, are the titles of the chapters and subchapters bellow, and also in the conclusions and recommendations for foster care and the social practice. Results:For personal development, children need relationships with others. Maternal and paternal love, and care are the basic elements of these relationships - as confirmed in the interviews with foster parents. Alongside with biological parenthood, the so-called “psychological parenthood” has an important role to play. The role of a psychological parent can be filled by the members of own (i.e. biological) family as well as by adoptive parents, foster parents, the biological parents’ partners (stepmothers and stepfathers) and - under certain conditions - also by personnel in facilities of social care. Their psychological needs and the extent of their satisfaction determine what they will experience and how they will feel. Discussion:It is important to prepare parents to accept the fact that foster parenthood is different from biological parenthood. Prospective foster parents often come to the offices of Social and Legal Protection of Children and Social Curatorship with the opinion that not even biological parents are being prepared for their parental roles. Foster parents already having biological children argue - as it follows from the interviews carried out throughout the research - that they are experienced parents and, so, they can bring up foster children as well. They do not realize that foster children bring something new that biological children have never experienced. Biological and foster parenthood are definitely not the same. Conclusions:In the conclusions, the authors point out that children in foster care identify with their parents’ values and opinions. For children who have faced significant adversity in their lives, it is beneficial if the family environment and education are harmonious. Such good conditions can have a positive impact on the children’s entire future lives. In the process of adaptation, the whole network of relationships within the family must be re-structuralized, which requires well-prepared family members.

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Vanderfaeillie, Johan, Laura Gypen, Delphine West, and Frank Van Holen. "Support needs and satisfaction of Flemish foster parents in long-term foster care: Associated characteristics of foster children, foster parents and foster placements." Children and Youth Services Review 113 (June 2020): 104990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.104990.

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Strijker, Johan, Simon van Oijen, and Jana Knot-Dickscheit. "Assessment of problem behaviour by foster parents and their foster children." Child & Family Social Work 16, no. 1 (2010): 93–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2206.2010.00717.x.

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Järvinen, Margaretha, and Stine Tankred Luckow. "Sociological Ambivalence: Relationships between Birth Parents and Foster Parents." Sociology 54, no. 4 (2020): 825–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038519896937.

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Inspired by Merton and Barber’s sociological theory on ambivalence, this article analyses ‘co-parenting’ between foster parents and birth parents as prototypes of ambivalent relationships; that is, relationships based on incompatible role requirements. This incompatibility is rooted in the conflicts between (a) the professional role of foster carers and their emotional involvement in the child in their care, and (b) the status of birth parents as ‘failed parents’ (from the perspective of the authorities) and their continuous aspirations to get their child home again. The article is based on qualitative interviews with foster parents and birth parents of children in foster care in Denmark. We show how the structural ambivalence is associated with difficulties, for both foster parents and birth parents, in translating the principle of ‘the best interest of the child’ into concrete practice in out-of-home placements.

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Han, Robin C., Christopher K. Owen, Corey C. Lieneman, and Cheryl B. McNeil. "“Fostering” Effective Foster Parent Training Programs : Parent-Child Interaction Therapy Adaptations for the Child Welfare Setting." Open Family Studies Journal 12, no. 1 (2020): 10–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874922402012010010.

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Foster parents face considerable challenges in caring for children in the child welfare system, many of whom have significant behavioral difficulties [1]. Foster parents often lack the training and support needed to manage these externalizing behaviors, which contribute to parenting stress and are highly predictive of placement breakdowns [2, 3]. Although child welfare agencies provide foster parents with pre-service training experiences, they often lack the capacity and financial resources to implement gold standard, evidence-based interventions that address child behavior difficulties. Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) has been well-established as an empirically supported treatment for disruptive behavior, yet standard delivery of PCIT to children in the foster care system is often impractical due to time, financial, childcare, and personnel constraints. Adaptations of PCIT for the foster care setting may remove some of these barriers to treatment. These adaptations have typically retained the parent-coaching principles inherent to PCIT but replaced the traditional 12- to 20-week format with a shorter, less intensive treatment regimen in order to maintain feasibility within the child welfare context. Preliminary findings from studies using abbreviated formats of PCIT suggest effectiveness of such adaptations in reducing externalizing behavior in foster children and maintaining behavioral improvements several months after the end of the treatment.

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Krčar, Mateja, and Maja Laklija. "Foster care from the perspective of Roma foster parents in Roma settlements in Međimurje county." Kriminologija & socijalna integracija 26, no. 2 (2018): 183–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.31299/ksi.26.2.3.

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Foster care is a form of care for children who can’t receive appropriate care in their primary family. It’s an alternative to institutional care for children and its advantage is the family environment. The aim of this research was to gain an insight into experiences of Roma foster parents (N = 7) with providing foster care in Roma settlements. The results of this research show that Roma foster parents decided to become foster care providers because of their desire to provide an appropriate care for children, the existence of conditions for providing foster care and their experience with foster care through life. Hindering factors in providing foster care are the reactions of local people, behaviour of the biological parents of children, children’s behaviour and life in the Roma settlement due to their specific way of life. Empowering factors in providing foster care are: social support, so-called emotional “effects” of foster care on the foster parents as well as life in the Roma settlement due to preservation of the culture, language and identity. Practical implication of the research is a deeper understanding of this subject area, and the results, besides being used to consider future research, also provide guidelines for practical action for improving the quality of care for Roma children in foster care and supporting Roma foster parents in accordance with their tradition and culture.

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Brown, Jason D., and Susan Rodger. "Children with disabilities: Problems faced by foster parents." Children and Youth Services Review 31, no. 1 (2009): 40–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2008.05.007.

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Swick, Kevin James. "Empower Foster Parents Toward Caring Relations with Children." Early Childhood Education Journal 34, no. 6 (2007): 393–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10643-007-0158-7.

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Fineran, Kerrie R. "Helping Foster and Adopted Children to Grieve the Loss of Birthparents." Family Journal 20, no. 4 (2012): 369–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1066480712451230.

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Working with children and adolescents in the foster care system whose biological parents’ parental rights have been, or are soon to be, terminated can present numerous challenges for counselors. Children in these situations often struggle with identification of conflicting feelings, grief resulting from the absence of the parent/parents, and reorientation to life in a new family. In this article, a case from the author’s clinical experience is presented and related to the stages of grief suggested by Kübler-Ross and to Worden’s tasks of mourning. Practical applications and interventions are considered.

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Skilbred, Dag Tore, Anette Christine Iversen, and Bente Moldestad. "Successful Academic Achievement Among Foster Children: What Did the Foster Parents Do?" Child Care in Practice 23, no. 4 (2016): 356–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13575279.2016.1188764.

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STOVALL, K. CHASE, and MARY DOZIER. "The development of attachment in new relationships: Single subject analyses for 10 foster infants." Development and Psychopathology 12, no. 2 (2000): 133–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954579400002029.

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This paper presents single-subject analyses of newly developing attachment relationships in 10 foster infant–caregiver dyads. Using a diary methodology, at least 2 months of daily data were provided by foster parents on infants' attachment behaviors. Foster infant attachment was also assessed using the Strange Situation. Foster mother state of mind regarding attachment was measured using the Adult Attachment Interview. For eight infants, diary data revealed predominant patterns of attachment behavior emerging within 2 months of placement. In most cases, diary data predicted Strange Situation classifications. Both Strange Situation and diary data indicated that the three children placed in foster care before 12 months of age with foster parents having primary or secondary autonomous states of mind were classified as having secure attachments. The five children placed after 12 months of age showed predominantly insecure attachment behavior in the diary and were classified as insecure in the Strange Situation. Contingency analyses of behavioral sequences reported in the diary revealed that foster parents tended to complement their foster childrens' attachment behaviors.

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Yaroshenko, Alla. "Foster family: from motivation to successful parenting." Scientific bulletin of South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky 2020, no. 1 (130) (2020): 162–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.24195/2617-6688-2020-1-21.

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Nowadays, the problem of protecting the rights and interests of orphaned children and children deprived of parental care is gaining relevance. The family is viewed as a leading institution for child socialization, a guarantor of his/her harmonious development and satisfaction of his/her needs; therefore, foster families as a modern form of temporary family placement for children is currently deemed to be preferential. Experts gradually start to realize the necessity of transition to the “professionalization of care” in general and parenthood in particular, when care is considered as a special type of activity that implies possession of specific skills and abilities. Such activity may go beyond the domestic sphere and take place with the involvement of the family, state, market and non-governmental associations. In view of this, the development of family forms of placement requires creation of mechanisms for the selection and training of adults who intend to take children deprived of parental care into their family. The article presents motivational complexes and values encouraging parents to start a foster family. Replacement family models have been characterized in terms of the educational function implementation being successful or unsuccessful. Successful parenthood criteria have been defined at three levels: child-parent relationships, parents' interactions, interrelation between the family and society. Social and psychological features of foster parents have been analyzed, which features have an impact on successful adaptation of the family in the situation where a child is being taken into the family. The importance of taking account of additional factors that underlie potential success of a foster family has been substantiated. It is emphasized that such gender-related aspects of foster parenthood as the husbands' involvement in doing housework and looking after children, children's gender socialization, single foster parents, instances of domestic violence in foster families, etc. still have not been extensively covered in scientific literature.

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Joseph, Michelle A., Thomas G. O'Connor, Jacqueline A. Briskman, Barbara Maughan, and Stephen Scott. "The formation of secure new attachments by children who were maltreated: An observational study of adolescents in foster care." Development and Psychopathology 26, no. 1 (2013): 67–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954579413000540.

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AbstractChildren who were maltreated and enter foster care are at risk for maladjustment and relationship disturbances with foster carers. A popular hypothesis is that prior attachment relationships with abusive birth parents are internalized and carried forward to impair the child's subsequent attachment relationships. However, the empirical base for this model is limited, especially in adolescence. We examined the attachment patterns of 62 adolescents with their birth parents and their foster parents; we compared them to a comparison sample of 50 adolescents in normal-risk families. Attachment was assessed using the Child Attachment Interview; adolescent–parent interaction quality was assessed from direct observation; disruptive behavior symptoms were assessed from multiple informants. Whereas nearly all of the adolescents in foster families exhibited insecure attachments to their birth mothers (90%) and birth fathers (100%), nearly one-half were classified as having a secure attachment with their foster mother (46%) and father (49%); rates of secure attachment toward foster parents did not differ significantly from the rate in comparison families. Within the foster care sample, attachment security to the foster mother was predicted from current observed relationship quality and the duration of current placement. In addition, attachment quality in foster adolescents was associated with fewer disruptive behavior symptoms, and this association was equally strong in foster and comparison families. Our findings demonstrate that there is substantial potential for maltreated children to change and develop subsequent secure attachments in adolescence.

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Ito, Kayoko. "The construction of the Foster family support model to prevent the cancellation of placement." Impact 2020, no. 9 (2020): 51–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.21820/23987073.2020.9.51.

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In the majority of developed countries, children who are abused, neglected or cannot live with their parents for other reasons, are placed in foster homes. Japanese social foster care has traditionally been centred around institutional care. This led to the United Nations making recommendations for improvement and in response, Japan announced 'The Issues and Future Vision of Social Foster Care' in 2011 and a 'New Vision of Social Foster Care' to increase the foster parent placement rate in 2017. Professor Kayoko Ito, from the Faculty of Social Welfare and Education at Osaka Prefecture University in Japan, has assembled a team of researchers to work on a project that seeks to build a system for supporting foster parents and promote home-based care by foster parents. The intention is that this system will eliminate the burden of raising a foster child and thereby reduce the incidence of giving up, resulting in an overall improvement in foster care in Japan.

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Kim, Jungnam, Kathryn Fletcher, and Julia Bryan. "Empowering Marginalized Parents." Professional School Counseling 21, no. 1b (2017): 2156759X1877358. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2156759x18773585.

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We describe a parent empowerment model focused on how school counselors facilitate empowerment of parents, especially marginalized parents, to support and advocate for their children. Based on Young and Bryan’s school counselor leadership framework, the parent empowerment model was designed to guide school counselors in developing programs that help marginalized parents become actively involved in their children’s education. We present school counselor leadership practices that foster empowerment for marginalized parents with an example case vignette and discuss implications for school counseling practices.

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Megawati, Karina, and Ghansham Anand. "Hak Waris Anak Adopsi Dari Orang Tua Yang Telah Bercerai Dalam Perspektif Hukum Perdata Barat." Res Judicata 1, no. 2 (2018): 115. http://dx.doi.org/10.29406/rj.v1i2.1235.

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Pluralism concerning stipulation of regulation regarding inheritance in Indonesia commonly stimulates numerous problems. This situation is getting complicated when it deals with regulation about adoption. Complex issue that commonly occurs within this regulation is concerning the status of adopted children when their foster parents are getting divorce. The present study aims to examine and elaborate further about civil connection between adopted children and their foster parents coupled with their inheritance rights when their parents are divorced based on western civil law point of view. The method uses in the present study is normative legal research, in which conducted it is conducted by examining the library materials or secondary law while in finding and collecting the data is done by two approaches, namely the law and conceptual approaches. The present study shows that based on Staastlaad 129:1917 it is stated that adopted children possess civil relation with their foster parents in which the relationship is same as with their biological parents. Therefore, although their foster parents are divorced, they still hold inheritance rights from their foster father and mother. Moreover, inheritance rights that holds by adopted children is equal with the inheritance rights that is possessed by biological children.

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Maaskant, Anne M., Floor B. van Rooij, Henny M. W. Bos, and Jo M. A. Hermanns. "The wellbeing of foster children and their relationship with foster parents and biological parents: a child’s perspective." Journal of Social Work Practice 30, no. 4 (2015): 379–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2015.1092952.

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Juratowitch, Dawn M., and Norman J. Smith. "Quality foster care: who decides?" Children Australia 21, no. 1 (1996): 9–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200004727.

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The selection of foster parents with qualities necessary to undertake care of other people's children is a difficult task. Little research has been done in identifying what the associated qualities are. This paper reports the first stage of a research study examining these qualities from the perspective of foster parents themselves and experienced family care workers. From a qualitative exercise involving 10 foster parents and 2 family care workers over 50 nominated qualities were elicited covering motivation; personal attributes; knowledge and skills with children and competencies emanating from experience. Arising from this exercise a model was constructed which identifies stages in foster parenting. This could enable differential educational strategies based on a competency approach to be developed in order to achieve a better level of quality control.

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Salas Martínez, María D., María J. Fuentes, Isabel M. Bernedo, and Miguel A. García-Martín. "Contact visits between foster children and their birth family: the views of foster children, foster parents and social workers." Child & Family Social Work 21, no. 4 (2014): 473–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12163.

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Alber, Erdmute. "Grandparents as Foster-Parents: Transformations in Foster Relations Between Grandparents and Grandchildren in Northern Benin." Africa 74, no. 1 (2004): 28–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/afr.2004.74.1.28.

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AbstractThis article deals with an aspect of the special relationship between grandparents and grandchildren: the fosterage of grandchildren by their (classificatory) grandparents. By becoming social parents with full responsibility for their social children, grandparents—as foster-parents—take upon themselves the characteristics typical both of parental roles involving authority, and grand-parental behaviour involving joking, warmth and proximity to their fostered grandchildren. The practices of grandparental fosterage, as well as changes in them, need to be understood in the broader context of widespread fosterage among Baatombu, where the majority of children grow up not with their biological parents but with foster-parents. The gradual decline of old forms of fosterage is affecting foster practices between grandparents and grandchildren. The grandparents’ generation evaluate this decline negatively and fear that changing fosterage patterns may adversely affect their social security in old age.

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Tadros, Lynette. "Caring for children who care: Acknowledging the importance of the natural children of foster parents." Children Australia 28, no. 3 (2003): 17–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200005678.

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In the arena of social welfare it is not unusual for practitioners to endeavour to give a voice to the disadvantaged by working to empower clients; placing value on each individual member in a family; helping communities care for each other; advocating for the rights of children and women. No doubt this is all familiar rhetoric to most welfare and social workers. However, in the area of foster care a voice that has seldom been heard is the voice of the ‘children who care’. The natural children of foster carers are valuable members of the caring team and whilst many foster parents are aware of their own children's contribution in caring for foster children, foster care agencies and social workers/caseworkers have not formally acknowledged them or accorded to them the support they deserve. Better outcomes for children in foster care and for families who care will be achieved if practitioners consult with, support, and acknowledge the ‘children who care’.

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Goughler, Donald H., and Annette C. Trunzo. "Unretired and Better than Ever: Older Adults as Foster Parents for Children." Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 86, no. 3 (2005): 393–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.3437.

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The authors explore issues concerning employing older adults as foster parents for children. A survey of agencies in the United States suggests that agencies that utilize older adults as foster parents experience benefits, including elders' abilities to impart life experience and to offer a high degree of tolerance and time flexibility. Older foster parents, when surveyed, reported that fostering benefited them, citing pleasures they derived and defining contributions gained to their own welfare. The authors recommend strategies for agencies to recruit older adults as foster parents as well as public consciousness-raising efforts that promote the value gained by society and the older adults when they choose second careers in child care.

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Turner, John. "Successful reunification of foster care children with their biological parents: Characteristics of parents and children." Child Care Quarterly 15, no. 1 (1986): 50–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01118993.

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Frimpong-Manso, Kwabena, Ebenezer Cudjoe, Alhassan Abdullah, Antoine Deliege, and Esther Kum-Tabia Eshun. "Keeping families afloat: Foster carer’s parenting experiences during COVID-19 in Ghana and implications for practice." Developmental Child Welfare 3, no. 2 (2021): 85–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/25161032211019048.

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Formal foster care is a relatively new phenomenon in Ghana. The practice is in conformity with international and national policy guidelines to deinstitutionalize and strengthen family-based care for children without adequate parental care. In addition to the known challenges of foster parenting in Ghana (stigma, financial challenges and emotional strain, inexperience of the foster parents), the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 restrictions may worsen caregivers’ burden and negatively affect children in care. This study explored how foster parents are meeting their caregiving demands during the COVID-19 pandemic in the face of existing and new challenges. Following a participatory practice research approach, a co-constructed interview guide by the researchers and a practitioner was used to conduct in-depth telephone interviews with 13 foster parents. Findings from thematic analysis of the interviews showed challenges, including increased cost of caregiving and multiple caregiving duties as challenges facing foster parents whereas children’s knowledge about the virus, informal support and religious beliefs collectively enhanced caregiving during the pandemic. The findings provide learning about ways to alleviate parenting challenges for foster parents during and after the pandemic. Specifically, interventions that view children as actors for change and strengthen community and religious bodies to deliver psychosocial services would be useful to improve foster parenting.

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Twigg, Robert C. "The unknown soldiers of foster care: Foster care as loss for the foster parents’ own children." Smith College Studies in Social Work 64, no. 3 (1994): 297–312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00377319409517416.

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Zhuykova, E. B., and T. D. Panyusheva. "On the issue of professional foster parents position." Консультативная психология и психотерапия 23, no. 4 (2015): 83–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.17759/cpp.2015230406.

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This article deals with discussing the phenomenon of parent professionalism in the sphere of family placement. It contains a review of domestic and international literature on the topic of psychological social differences and special characteristics of families depending on the form of family placement. The urgency of the need in professionalizing of host families abroad as well as in Russia is being analyzed, several decades of dynamics of identity and motivation changes to in the community of host families are being described. The article also outlines the problem of discrepancies in the legal form of family placement and psychological mindset of parents as well as inconsistency in demands raised by the society towards professional parents. Based on the analysis of international literature and domestic experience the authors set forward criteria and characteristics of professional host family compared with families with adopting tendency in their parenting style. The perspective of differentiation of the ways to support host families depending on professionalization level and developing social support for such families, empowerment of the host families community in fulfilling new functions (fostering children with special needs, choosing a family for a child, temporary accommodation of children).

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Noakes, Amy. "Supporting foster carers and looked-after children." Journal of Health Visiting 8, no. 9 (2020): 374–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/johv.2020.8.9.374.

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Fostering provides a family life for children who are unable to live with their biological parents. The wellbeing of foster carers is important and can have a direct impact on emotional, social and behavioural outcomes for children

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Serbinski, Sarah. "Growing up with foster siblings: Exploring the impacts of fostering on the children of foster parents." Qualitative Social Work 16, no. 1 (2016): 131–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1473325015599247.

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Growing up with foster siblings, the children of foster parents have experienced fostering from a different perspective which has continued to impact them throughout their lives. In this qualitative study, the experiences of 12 daughters of foster parents (aged 20–33 years) are explored, along with how they cope with their fostering experiences. Open-ended interviews, demographic questionnaires, object sharing, photographing the object, photo-feedback, and memo-writing were included within the data collection process. Data analysis included initial coding, focused coding, and memo-writing. Dedoose, a data management system, was used to assist in analysing the multiple data sources. Findings reveal that the daughters of foster parents are exposed to multiple foster sibling relationships due to the temporary nature of foster care. To protect their emotional well-being, these participants become apprehensive about developing relationships with new foster siblings, as well as with friends and romantic partners. Participating daughters sought emotional support from their mothers who established a strong, stable, and supportive relationship with them. Recommendations for foster parents and social workers are suggested.

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Ellingsen, Ingunn T., Paul Stephens, and Ingunn Størksen. "Congruence and incongruence in the perception of ‘family’ among foster parents, birth parents and their adolescent (foster) children." Child & Family Social Work 17, no. 4 (2011): 427–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2206.2011.00796.x.

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Lawson, Danielle F., Kathryn T. Stevenson, M. Nils Peterson, Sarah J. Carrier, Renee L. Strnad, and Erin Seekamp. "Children can foster climate change concern among their parents." Nature Climate Change 9, no. 6 (2019): 458–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0463-3.

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Harris, Gardenia, John Poertner, and Sean Joe. "The Parents with Children in Foster Care Satisfaction Scale." Administration in Social Work 24, no. 2 (2000): 15–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j147v24n02_02.

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Henry, Delmina, Danielle Cossett, Tara Auletta, and Eileen Egan. "Needed services for foster parents of sexually abused children." Child & Adolescent Social Work Journal 8, no. 2 (1991): 127–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00757554.

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Barth, Richard P., Joanne Yeaton, and Nanette Winterfelt. "Psychoeducational groups with foster parents of sexually abused children." Child & Adolescent Social Work Journal 11, no. 5 (1994): 405–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01876590.

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Gorina, Maritana, Oksana Ivanova, and Marite Kravale-Paulina. "Foster Parents’ Readiness for the Implementation of Foster Family Pedagogy." Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability 22, no. 2 (2020): 26–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jtes-2020-0014.

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Abstract It can be observed that changing attitude towards the environment and fellow human beings manifests itself as a socially unsustainable relationship, which in different ways and at different levels manifests itself in social exclusion. Social exclusion is increasingly emerging as a phenomenon that is complex in nature and its solutions must be sought in the wicked problem approach, which is characteristic of complex problems and has significant ontological roots. At present, ontology should consider the much more complicated problem of what types of being are formed by both the natural and the cultural evolutionary processes. It can be argued that evolutionary ontology attempts to create a new image of the world and of humans – a new non-anthropocentric cosmology, i.e., a consistently philosophical culturological cosmology that takes into account reality in its real structure as a conflict between the spontaneous activity of nature and the socio-cultural activity of humans (Šmajs, 2008, p. 96). The reasons for social exclusion can be different, and its specific manifestations are various, and the same can be said about the phenomenon of social inclusion, which is the expression of the quality of other relationships and attitudes. Externally observable signs of social exclusion are more closely related to the concept of families at risk. A social risk family can be defined as a family that experiences difficult problems and has limited opportunities to provide favorable living conditions for the comprehensive development of all family members. More and more often it is associated with unsustainable cultural or non-cultural contexts, mainly related to non-ecological culture prosperity in the consumer society. It can be noted that this context in its current form (which includes manufacturing, consumption, material culture, and technology, and both the social, intellectual, and material life of humans) is quite anti-natural oriented in its principle. Unfortunately, the aggressive anti-natural sociocultural strategy permeated also the field of human upbringing and education (Šmajs, 2008, p. 194). At the beginning of the 21st century, it has emerged as the Anthropocene era in a broader sense, in which the geological characterization of the era is complemented by the characterization of the sustainability of public relations in a broader holistic perspective. The aim of the article is to consider a number of real cases in a broader perspective from the point of view of foster family pedagogy, identify the choice of foster care approaches and evaluate the results obtained. From the perspective of foster family pedagogy, foster parents and foster children are participants in the lifelong learning process, where the mutual influence and interaction of foster parents and foster children are studied. The authors evaluated real situations from the perspective of foster family pedagogy and children’s involvement in the family structure. The article also examines the influence of the foster family and its readiness to overcome the effects of Anthropocene unsustainability.

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Ainsworth, Frank, and Patricia Hansen. "Understanding the Behaviour of Children in Care before and after Parental Contact." Children Australia 42, no. 1 (2017): 5–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cha.2016.50.

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It is not uncommon to hear foster carers and child protection case workers comment about a child's behaviour both before and after parental contact. Frequently these comments are negative, the view being expressed that contact should be reduced because the children get upset at seeing their parents for a limited time, and then at having to separate from them. The child's resultant distress seems too difficult to manage for foster carers. Some foster parents even go so far as to suggest that parental contact should completely cease. This article sets out the rationale for parent–child contact after a Children's Court has ruled that there is “no realistic possibility of restoration” of a child to parental care. In doing so, the article revisits many of the old arguments put forward for reducing parent contact. However, alternative ways of approaching children's difficult behaviours both pre- and post-contact are also proposed to suggest different ways of managing these behaviours. The legislation and child protection practice in New South Wales provides the frame of reference for this article.

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