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...

Rather than professional-driven decisions, shared decisions are central to family-centered philosophy and practices. This qualitative study investigated how four home visitors 12 families engaged in institutional decision-making about 16 infants toddlers enrolled Early Head Start. The following research question was addressed: How do visitor discursive strategies contribute family participation...

This is a continuation of and a development of a debate between John Keown and me. The issue discussed is whether, in Britain, an unpaid system of blood donation promotes and is justified by its promotion of altruism. Doubt is cast on the notions that public policies can, and, if they can, that they should, be aimed at the promotion and expression of altruism rather than of self-interest, espec...

Smart spaces foster the development of more natural and suitable forms of human-computer interaction taking advantage of customization possibilities offered by the home. The interaction chances of the Digital Home, as a special type of smart space, have a special interest in fields where the acceptance of new technologies is low and restrictive. Homecare is a discipline where this acceptance is...

Objective—To examine the influence of kinship care on behavioral problems after 18 and 36 months in out-of-home care. Growth in placement of children with kin has occurred despite conflicting evidence regarding its benefits compared to foster care. Design—Prospective cohort study Setting—National Survey of Child & Adolescent Well-Being, October, 1999-March, 2004 Participants—1,309 children ente...

What might it mean to think of ‘the single’ as a potentially queer subject and in what ways does singleness pose a challenge to heteronormative conceptualizations of the lifecourse and household formation? In this paper I explore some of the contested meanings of ‘home’ for those who are single; and examine how single people have created new forms of home and new spaces of at-homeness with thos...

We use the April 1993 Current Population Survey to examine the health insurance coverage decisions of the unemployed and to simulate the potential effects of the new Kassebaum-Kennedy legislation. After controlling for demographic characteristics, COBRA eligibility raises the probability of health insurance coverage by 0.095, while eligibility for spouse employer insurance increases the likelih...