Foster Care

The term “foster care” is used in a variety of ways, and, consequently, it often causes confusion and miscommunication. In the industrialized world it is generally used to refer to formal, temporary placements made by the State with families that are trained, monitored and compensated at some level. In many developing countries, however, fostering is kinship care or other placement with a family, the objective(s) of which may include the care of the child, the child’s access to education, and/or the child’s doing some type of work for the foster family.

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Brandon Crawford, Angela B. Pharris, Rachel Dorsett-Burrell - Children and Youth Services Review,

Using a bevy of administrative data, this article investigates potential risk and protective factors of youth (n= 1420) who aged out of foster care without legal permanency in a southwestern state.

Josephine D. Kliewer-Neumann, Janin Zimmermann, Ina Bovenschen, Sandra Gabler, Katrin Lang, Gottfried Spangler and Katja Nowacki - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health,

In the current study, several assessments for attachment disorder symptoms are used within a German sample of foster children after being exposed to neglect and maltreatment in their biological families.

Elizabeth J. Greenor, Bethany R. Lee, Michelle Tuten, Deborah Harburger - Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal,

This study assesses prevalence of substance use, and the impact of housing instability. and independence preparation on substance use in two samples: youth currently in-care and former foster youth.

Jelena Zumbach, Peter Wetzels, Ute Koglin - Child Abuse & Neglect,

In an explorative manner, the current study investigates variables that influence psychological evaluators’ recommendations in child protection cases.

Marit Larsen, Valborg Baste, Ragnhild Bjørknes, Trine Myrvold and Stine Lehmann - BMC Health Services Research,

The aim of this study is to examine whether youth in foster care receive services according to need, by using a multi-informant design.

Joshua D. Bishop, Kristen Prock, Jisuk Seon, Amanda T. Woodward, Anne K. Hughes, Sister Miriam MacLean - Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma,

This cross-sectional study uses a random sample of forty-six foster care alumni from a Midwestern public university to explore the relationship between exposure to trauma and post-secondary academic achievement. 

Tom Matthews, Victoria Holt, Senem Sahin, Amelia Taylor, David Griksaitis - Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry,

This research investigated the prevalence of looked-after and adopted young people within a case file review of 185 young people referred to a UK gender identity development service over a 2-year period (1 April 2009 to 1 April 2011).

Kierra M.P. Sattler, Sarah A. Font, Elizabeth T.Gershoff - Child Abuse & Neglect,

This study investigated two research questions: (1) Which child attributes and case histories are associated with placement disruptions (moves indicative of child, agency or caregiver dissatisfaction with the existing placement)?; and (2) How do associations of child attributes and case histories with placement disruptions vary by developmental stage --early childhood (0–5 years), middle childhood (6–12 years), and adolescence (13 years or older)?

US Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Children's Bureau,

This report from the US Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Children's Bureau presents statistics and figures on foster care in the US for 2017, including the number of children in care disaggregated by age, sex, race/ethnicity, placement type, time in care, and more.

Natasha Hudek - University of Ottowa,

The current studies used longitudinal data collected across 7 years from a sample of 1,765 children, 5 to 14 years old, in out-of-home care in Maryland, USA. This first study examined the trajectories of anxiety and depression across age and time in care separately and the second examined the reciprocal relationships across time between anxiety, depression, and significant risk and protective factors from Study 1.