Kinship Probate Guardianship: An Important Permanency Option for Children

Premature probate: a different perspective on guardianship for the elderly.

An Examination of Post-permanency Adjustment and Discontinuity for Older Foster Youth in Adoptive and Guardianship Homes

screening phase. The same six inclusion criteria above were also applied to select full-text articles for the final sample. In addition, snowball sampling (Contandriopoulos, Lemire, Denis, & Tremblay, 2010; Hesse-Biber & Leavy, 2011) was implemented to locate more studies. Specifically, the references lists of all full-text articles were searched to find

Achieving exits to permanency for children in long term care.

Despite the federal emphasis on achieving timely permanency for children who enter foster care, some children continue to remain in foster care for extended periods, with approximately 20,000 children a year "aging out" of foster care into adulthood without having achieved permanency in a family setting ( Dworsky, 2008 ). This literature review focuses on the federal Child and Family Services R...

Adult visitation and permanency for children following residential treatment

a r t i c l e i n f o The absence of parents for foster children in residential treatment undermines the known positive effects of parental visits during treatment on children's permanency. To date, little attention has been given to the scope and role of visitation by non-parental adults. This study utilized clinical data from a residential treatment center for children to examine the patterns...

Guardianship of Children Born from Artificial Insemination

Infertility in the world today is no longer an inescapable problem, and doctors have been able to solve the problem of infertile treatment in a coherent way. The birth of children by artificial insemination is in the following ways: 1) Insemination by husband’s sperm with egg inside the uterus or out of it for fertilization, and 2) Inoculation by another sperm (stranger-donor) inside or outside...