scholarly journals Parent adjustment over time in gay, lesbian, and heterosexual parent families adopting from foster care.

2014 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin A. Lavner ◽  
Jill Waterman ◽  
Letitia Anne Peplau
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Parent Adjustment ◽  
Over Time

Polyvictimization Experiences and Depression Among Youth Living in Foster Care

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aimée X. Delaney ◽  
Melissa Wells
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
Multilevel Modeling ◽  
Psychological Outcomes ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Foster Care Youth ◽  
Experienced Child ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

Current research indicates that violence against youth contributes to adverse psychological outcomes but has yet to focus on violence against youth while living in foster care and the associated psychosomatic changes over time. Multilevel modeling regression was used to analyze self-reported depression for a sample of 354 youth living in foster care from one Midwestern state. The present study found that changes in depression levels over time among the foster care youth who experienced polyvictimization, compared to the youth who experienced child maltreatment alone, were conditional upon gender and varied significantly by race. Policy implications are discussed.

Absence and Ambivalence

2019 ◽  
pp. 341-364
Author(s):  
Abbie E. Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Birth Mothers ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Birth Fathers ◽  
Over Time

This chapter addresses birth fathers—but often in the context of their absence. Many adoptive parents did not appear to view birth fathers as symbolically or relationally as “important” as birth mothers. For some, this tendency persisted throughout their children’s lives. Others, though, became increasingly curious about their children’s birth fathers. Still others did enact relationships with birth fathers over time, and in some cases these were important relationships to parents and children. This chapter discusses these different patterns, with attention to how and why birth fathers are often “invisible” in adoption narratives. It also explores how adoptive parents talk about birth fathers and how this varies depending on whether parents adopted privately and domestically versus through foster care, and how it varies over time.

Avoiding saying too much: The complexity of relationships between permanent parents and social workers

2001 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cas O’Neill
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Physical Punishment ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Parenting Expectations ◽  
Over Time

Relationships between social workers and foster care, permanent care and adoptive parents are based on a combination ofknowledge, power, partnership and support, the ‘mix’ of which is likely to change over time. Different interpretations of what each side contributes to these relationships during assessment and post-placement contact, add to the complexity which parents and workers negotiate.In a longitudinal research project on support in permanent placements, avoiding saying too much was an important part of these relationships. ‘Good’ and ‘bad’ parenting, expectations, blame, physical punishment and not coping are just some of the issues which were not spoken about.This article explores the gap between the things which can be said and the things which are rarely said, and looks at how this gap affects relationships between fami lies and workers.

Prologue—Setting the Stage

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Abbie E. Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Heterosexual Couples ◽  
Adoptive Families ◽  
The Past ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Over Time

The prologue provides historical context for the book, detailing, for example, how adoption has changed over time, particularly with regard to structural openness (i.e., contact between birth and adoptive families) and communicative openness in adoption (i.e., how parents talk about adoption), two key concepts in the book. In addition to changes in openness, other major societal shifts have occurred over the past several decades that impact and intersect with adoption: namely, the rise in gay parenthood and the rise and expansion of the Internet in society. The prologue also introduces the research participants who were interviewed for the book: namely, lesbian, gay, and heterosexual couples who adopted through private domestic adoption or foster care, and who were interviewed at various points from preadoption to 8 years after they adopted. The prologue also addresses the major theoretical perspectives (family systems, life course, developmental) that frame the book.

Survival Analyses of the Dynamics of Sibling Experiences in Foster Care

2008 ◽  
Vol 89 (4) ◽  
pp. 533-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicky N. Albert ◽  
William C. King
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
First Year ◽  
Monetary Incentives ◽  
Survival Analyses ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Sibling Groups

The present study compares reunification for sibling groups in foster care under alternate placement conditions, including placement with kin and entering care within the same month. The findings suggest siblings placed completely or partially together reunify at a faster rate than those placed apart. The gap between siblings placed completely or partially together and those placed completely apart increases over time, in particular after the first year in care. Fewer of those placed together remain in care during the first 8 months than those placed apart. Efforts to place siblings together should be strengthened. Monetary incentives might encourage more foster parents to provide homes to keep siblings together. Training foster parents about sibling issues may lead to more intact placements.

scholarly journals The Therapeutic Family Care Program: A 10-year community implementation of Treatment Foster Care in Ontario, Canada

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-40
Author(s):  
Dillon T. Browne ◽  
Jacqueline Johnson ◽  
Erin Beatty ◽  
Mary Price Cameron ◽  
Duane Durham ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Care Program ◽  
Treatment Foster Care ◽  
Birth Parent ◽  
Community Implementation ◽  
Clinical Tools ◽  
Over Time

The present study describes a community implementation of treatment foster care (TFC) for children and youth involved with child welfare in Ontario, Canada. There were two guiding research questions: (1) how are children and adolescents changing over the course of services and (2) how have the placements of children and adolescents changed over time? Clinical outcomes were tracked using the Assessment Checklist for Children (ACC) and Assessment Checklist for Adolescents (ACAs)—clinical tools that were specially designed to assess the functioning of young people in care. There were 1,068 ACCs on 518 children, and 559 ACAs on 222 adolescents. Each additional year of involvement with Therapeutic Family Care Program corresponded to additional improvement for both children, d = −.18; 95% confidence interval (CI) = −.25 to −.12, and adolescents, d = −.11; 95%CI = −.18 to −.03. Moderators and subdomains of clinical improvement were considered, though findings generally revealed significant improvement over time for most youngsters in most clinical areas. At the program level, there has been a significant increase in placement permanence across the last decade (i.e., greater prevalence of birth parent, adoption, and kinship care). In sum, this study illustrates an example of community implementation for TFC in a child welfare setting, which necessarily includes the systematic tracking of outcomes in the context of evidence-supported intervention.

scholarly journals Views from birth children: exploring the backstage world of sibling strangers

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-377
Author(s):  
Alyson Rees ◽  
Andrew Pithouse
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Young People ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Placement Stability ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Over Time

This article reports on an in-depth qualitative case study of 10 foster care families across England and Wales, and focuses on the birth children and their experiences of supporting the young people placed with them. We explore with these children and young people some of the challenges they perceive, the benefits they reap, as well as the skills and strengths that they bring to fostering. Their accounts of caring indicate that birth children engage in careful strategies of ‘sibling-like’ mediation with the fostered ‘strangers’ who first enter their homes and which, over time, brings an indispensable ‘glue’ to relationships that may all too often go unrecognised. The importance of learning from their contribution to placement stability and supporting them in their role concludes our exposition of this critical but sometimes neglected realm of fostering relationships and family life.

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