Family dynamics in kinship care

African Family and Kinship

Resiliency in children and youth in kinship care and family foster care.

This study examined self-concept, resiliency, and social support in 107 children and youth placed in foster care in New York City. Of the children and youth, 55 were placed in family foster care, while the remaining 52 children and youth were placed in a kinship foster home. Significantly more of mothers of the kinship foster care children and youth were homeless or substance abusing, yet visit...

Family and Kinship in East London

Here is a full and balanced account of working-class relationships which makes interesting and fruitful reading. The samples used may be small but they are presented in an ordered and convincing way; and although the main feature is the distinctive framework of Bethnal Green yet, basically the conclusion reached seems to be that it has much in common with other comparable urban communities with...

When children cannot remain home: foster family care and kinship care.

Despite the best efforts of child welfare agencies, community agencies, and individuals, some children are not safe in their homes and must be placed in substitute care settings by child welfare authorities. Increasingly, as this article points out, child welfare agencies are placing children in the homes of their relatives rather than in traditional foster family homes (31% of all children in ...

Demographic dynamics and kinship in anthropological populations.

Changes in fertility and mortality affect the size of surviving sibling sets and thus numbers of surviving kin. Because the genealogical generations specifying kinship relations are not temporal cohorts and most plausible demographic changes in anthropological populations are period shocks, the effect of such shocks on kin counts are complex. Shocks increasing fertility or decreasing mortality ...