Parenting Support

Families will require support when faced with problems they are unable to overcome on their own. Ideally support should come from existing networks, such as extended family, religious leaders, and neighbours. Where such support is not available or sufficient, additional family and community services are required. Such services are particularly important for kinship, foster and adoptive caretakers, and child headed households in order to prevent separation and address abuse and exploitation of children. It is also vital for children affected by HIV/AIDS and armed conflict, and those children living on the street.

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Vicky Lafantaisie, Jean-Charles St-Louis, Annie Bérubé, Tristan Milot & Carl Lacharité - Child Indicators Research,

Reflecting upon research on child neglect, this article focuses on the importance (or lack thereof) given to the views of families in neglect situation within this field.

Cynthia Cupit Swenson & Cindy M. Schaeffer - International Journal on Child Maltreatment: Research, Policy and Practice,

This article draws from the authors’ experiences of implementing ecologically-based treatment models based on multisystemic therapy, including the Neighborhood Solutions Project (NS) and Multisystemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect (MST-CAN). The authors call for a rigorous multisystemic approach to the protection of children, one that pays attention to children at risk of harm and those who are involved in formal child protection systems because they have experienced maltreatment.

Amilie Dorval, Josianne Lamothe, Sonia Hélie, Marie-Andrée Poirier - Children and Youth Services Review,

The present exploratory study aimed to describe and profile the characteristics of children placed in kinship care and their mothers, as reported before placement.

C.M.Rapsey & Cassandra J. Rolston - Children and Youth Services Review,

The aim of this study was to examine factors and processes of change that occurred through participation in a residential family preservation/reunification programme from the perspectives of service users and staff.

Better Care Network,

This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Committee on the Rights of the Child.

Ariane Critchley - Families in Motion: Ebbing and Flowing through Space and Time,

This chapter focusses on the experiences of expectant parents in Scotland of navigating the child protection involvement with their as yet unborn infant.

Jessica L. Chou, Shannon Cooper‐Sadlo, Rachel M. Diamond, Bertranna A. Muruthi, Sara Beeler‐Stinn - Family Process,

This study explored the construct of mothering children during family‐centered substance use treatment using a transcendental phenomenological approach.

Karen Milligan, Tamara Meixner, Monique Tremblay, Lesley A. Tarasoff, Amelia Usher, Ainsley Smith, Alison Niccols, Karen A. Urbanoski - Child Maltreatment,

The authors of this study systematically compared parenting interventions offered in 12 maternal substance use treatment programs in one Canadian province with those described in the research literature.

Hana Yoo, Kelsey Abiera - The British Journal of Social Work,

Based on semi-structured interviews with parents involved with child protective services (CPS), this study explored these parents’ self-identified parenting strengths in light of their family-of-origin experiences.

Karen Healy - Critical Social Policy,

In this article, the authors analyse how interventions of the State may undermine, rather than activate, the caring capabilities of vulnerable families across the life course, drawing on examples from Australia, England and the USA.