Americas

This page contains documents and other resources related to children's care in the Americas. Browse resources by region, country, or category.

Displaying 411 - 420 of 1422

List of Organisations

Leah P. Cheatham, Karen A. Randolph, Laura Boltz - Children and Youth Services Review,

The current study provides a more nuanced account of foster youth with disabilities’ transitions into adulthood.

Whitney L. Rostad, Katie A. Ports, Shichao Tang, Joanne Klevens - Child Maltreatment,

This study used variations in the adoption and refund status of state-level Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), a socioeconomic policy intended to reduce poverty, to examine their effect on foster care entry rates in the U.S.

Tony Xing Tan, Zhiyao Yi, Linda A. Camras - Children and Youth Services Review,

In this paper, the authors examined if high socio-economic status (SES) of families had an effect on youth’s adjustment by comparing 226 internationally adopted female Chinese youth who experienced pre-adoption institutionalization with 1059 non-adopted Chinese peers living in China, as well as 209 non-adopted American peers.

Colleen N. Nugent, Chinagozi Ugwu, Jo Jones, Sharon Newburg-Rinn, and Tammy White - National Center for Health Statistics & Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children & Families,

This report presents demographic characteristics, health service access and use, and timing of key fertility-related milestones among adults aged 18–44 who had ever been in foster care as compared with those who had never been in foster care in the United States.

Morgan E. Cooley & Raymond E. Petren - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study examined how foster parents worked together to parent foster children, how they described their roles and involvement with their foster children, how fostering impacted their coparenting and couple relationship, and their experiences and needs of working together with and within the foster care system.

Nadine Lanctôt - Child & Family Social Work,

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the associations between child maltreatment, cognitive schemas of disconnection/rejection reported in emerging adulthood, and social support perceived in emerging adulthood among young women who have exited placements in residential care.

Richard A. Brandon-Friedman, Elizabeth A. Wahler, Barbara J. Pierce, Jeffry W. Thigpen, J. Dennis Fortenberry - Journal of Adolescent Health,

This study explored the impact of sociosexualization and sexual identity development on the sexual well-being of youth formerly in the foster care system.

Lisa A. Goodman & Jennifer E. Fauci - Journal of Family Violence,

This article aims to review briefly the broader social, historical, and structural contexts of mandated reporting and the linked phenomena of parenting surveillance and the forced separation of families of color in the U.S.

Lindsey Palmer, Eunhye Ahn, Dorian Traube, John Prindle, Emily Putnam-Hornstein - Children and Youth Services Review,

In the current study, the authors identify specific child protective service experiences and mental and behavioral health characteristics that are predictive of moving from a family based foster placement to a congregate care placement.

Carolyn Oliver - Child & Family Social Work,

This article presents findings from a thematic analysis of interviews with 13 foster parents who participated in a mixed methods study exploring inclusive foster care in Canada - an approach requiring foster parents to engage with the family, community, and cultural life of the child for whom they care.