Supporting LGBTQ+ Foster Teens: Development of a Relationship-Focused,Self-Guided Curriculum for Foster Families

Maternal foster families provide more stable placements than paternal families

Foster children’s behavioral development and foster parent stress: testing a transactional model

The goal of this three-wave longitudinal study was to analyze foster parent stress and foster children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors in a transactional framework. Participants in this study were 237 children in foster care in the Netherlands with, mostly, long placement durations (M = 56.86 months, SD = 49.10 months). We examined concurrent, prospective unidirectional and bidirect...

Exclusive Contracts Foster Relationship-Specific Investment

Exclusive contracts prohibit one or both parties from trading with anyone else. Contrary to earlier findings, notably Segal and Whinston (2000), we show that investments that are specific to the contracted parties may be encouraged. Results depend on the nature of the investments and whether the bargaining is cooperative or non-cooperative. The major part of the analysis show that exclusive con...

The impact of foster care on development.

Foster care is a protective intervention designed to provide out of home placement to children living in at-risk home environments. This study employs prospective longitudinal data (N = 189) to investigate the effects of foster care on the development of child behavior and psychological functioning taking into account baseline adaptation prior to placement and socioeconomic status at the time o...

The effects of a health newsletter for foster parents on their perceptions of the behavior and development of foster children.

Foster children have a high prevalence of medical, emotional, development, and behavioral problems originating both with events leading up to placement and as a consequence of the placement itself. Foster parents are often inadequately trained to understand and help with these difficulties. This may result in the persistence or aggravation of problems, and thereby increase the risk of placement...