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'It's about the whole family': family contact for children in kinship care.
- Source :
- Child & Family Social Work; May2016, Vol. 21 Issue 2, p228-239, 12p, 5 Charts, 1 Graph
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Contact with family for children in care is identified as a right under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. However, such contact often presents challenges because of the protective concerns that have led to care arrangements being made. The Family Links: Kinship Care and Family Contact research study explored the nature and extent of family contact in kinship care, with a particular focus on the circumstances that create positive contact and foster family relationships. Findings included evidence of a large proportion of parental contact that was negatively affecting children's well‐being, and was sometimes unsafe. By contrast, the frequent contact that children were enjoying with their siblings and wider family was reported to be mostly positive and supportive. Kinship carers described a range of services needed to facilitate more positive parental contact and to enable children to keep contact with significant family members. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- BIRTHPARENTS
SIBLINGS
CHILDREN'S accident prevention
FATHER-child relationship
FOCUS groups
FOSTER children
FOSTER home care
FOSTER parents
GROUNDED theory
INTERPERSONAL relations
INTERVIEWING
PRISONERS
MOTHER-child relationship
NEEDS assessment
PARENT-child relationships
QUESTIONNAIRES
RESEARCH evaluation
RESEARCH funding
QUALITATIVE research
EXTENDED families
FAMILY relations
QUANTITATIVE research
WELL-being
THEMATIC analysis
PARENT attitudes
DATA analysis software
FAMILY attitudes
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13567500
- Volume :
- 21
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Child & Family Social Work
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 114515700
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12140