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On May 7, 2018, an article published inTheIndependent, titledHundreds more children ‘farmed out’ to care homes miles from where they live despite pledge to cut number, reported that the number of children in the UK who were being sent to residential homes hundreds of miles away fr...
The estimated three to four hundred thousand children in foster care represent a population at high risk for medical and psychosocial problems. Their probl... NJ Hochstadt,PK Jaudes,DA Zimo,... - 《Child Abuse & Neglect》 被引量: 381发表: 1987年 Premarital sexual activity among U.S. teena...
(2016). A developmental psychopathology perspective on foster care research. In D. Cicchetti (Ed.), Developmental psychopathology (3rd Ed., Vol. III, pp. 1-42). Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781119125556.devpsy312...
Victorian foster carers play a vital role in our community, providing a safe and nurturing home to children and young people who cannot live with their birth family. Children and young people requiring foster care can be of any age (up to 18 years), and can come from various cultural, ...
Aging out: Youths' perspectives on foster care and the transition to independence Foster youth in the United States face significant barriers in a transition to independence which is markedly abrupt compared to the 'emerging adulthood' t... MJ Cunningham,M Diversi - 《Qualitative Social Work》 被...
NJ Hochstadt,PK Jaudes,DA Zimo,... - 《Child Abuse & Neglect》 被引量: 381发表: 1987年 The foster care system and health status of foster children The foster home care system is the most commonly used alternative for the care of dependent children in the United States. However, it ofte...
Out of the 400,000 currently in care, 300,000 fit in this group. If those first two options aren’t possible, the state would most likely ask the foster parents to adopt the child. That is how we adopted our sibling group of three. Because of their needs and behaviors we were their...
New Jersey also suffered from foster parent shortages before a 1999 lawsuit filed by Children’s Rights. The Manhattan-based group accused the state of endangering its foster children with inadequate and substandard care. Instead of fighting the lawsuit, NJ settled and agreed to sweeping changes th...
It is not a surprise, then, that nearly half of the children in foster care have chronic medical problems and MEDICALLY COMPLEX CHILDREN: A GROWING POPULATION Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) is a popu- lation defined as, "… those who have or are at increased risk for a ...