The First Peoples Child & Family Review proudly presents this Special Edition on Custom Adoptions in partnership with the Siem Smun’eem Indigenous Child Wellbeing Research Network at the University of Victoria. This edition contains research articles, agency experiences, cultural perspectives and personal stories that highlight custom adoption from a historical and contemporary perspective.

This paper forms Part 2 of a two-part discussion paper on Indigenous custom adoption.

This paper forms Part 1 of a two-part discussion paper on Indigenous custom adoption.

This article describes a group of Elders in the Lax kw’alaams community of British Columbia who provide support and mentorship to the Lax kw’alaams children in care.

This article provides an overview of inter-country adoption of children from the United States to other countries.

This paper reviews the literature on foster care and explains the issues that foster children in Canada experience.

This paper provides an overview of the violence perpetrated by gangs and other criminal organizations in Mexico and Central America which compels many children to flee their communities. The paper also describes the US government’s obligations to protect unaccompanied children upon arrival, and good practices of other governments relating to the protection of child migrants and refugees.

The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand the experiences of grandparents in the US and the challenges they face raising their grandchildren.

To gain insight into how practitioners can best meet the needs of grandfamilies, 40 custodial grandmothers and their adolescent grandchildren were interviewed in this study.

This issue of GrandFamilies: The Contemporary Journal of Research, Practice and Policy includes several articles related to kinship care in the United States.