The State of Play: How have global children and youth issues fared in the U.S. government’s Fiscal Year 2018 appropriations process?

Gillian Huebner Consultant, Elevate Children Funders Group

This document sheds some light on where funding discussions currently stand with regard to U.S. government programs for global children and youth issues. 

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The relationship of relative child care and parenting behaviors in fragile families

Ching-Hsuan Lin & Angela R. Wiley - Children and Youth Services Review

This study examines whether the use of relative child care improves maternal parenting practices. Data from 3475 families in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study were used to examine how relative child care is related to parenting behaviors and how the patterns present among each racial/ethnic and immigrant family. 

Family structure and family relationship from the child well-being perspective: Findings from comparative analysis

Tamar Dinisman, Sabine Andresen, Carme Montserrat, Dorota Strózik, Tomasz Strózik - Children and Youth Services Review

The purpose of this study is to explore differences in family relationships, family subjective well-being (SWB) and overall SWB between children living in three different living arrangements – a two-parent family, a single-parent family and a separated family. 

Accomplishing family reunification for children in care: An Australian study

Elizabeth Fernandez & Jung-Sook Lee - Children and Youth Services Review

The multidimensional standardised assessment tool, the North Carolina Family Assessment Scale—Reunification (NCFAS-R) was used in this study by practitioners to assess family strengths and needs in case planning and reunification decision making. The current paper examined (1) whether NCFAS-R domain ratings at intake and closure differ by characteristics of parents and children; and (2) whether reunification is predicted by NCFAS-R score at closure.

Bridging the gap: The impact of home visiting programs for orphans and vulnerable children on social grant uptake in South Africa

Tonya R. Thurman, Rachel Kidman, Tory M.Taylor -Children and Youth Services Review

This article presents results from a quasi-experimental study in South Africa examining differences in grant uptake over a two year period among 1487 children enrolled in one of two types of supportive home visiting programming: volunteer-based or paraprofessional. 

Downward spiral: The impact of out-of-home placement on paternal welfare dependency

Peter Fallesen - Children and Youth Services Review

This article tests how out-of-home placement of children in Denmark affects men's labor market attachment, and in so doing the authors provide a novel parallel to existing research on how fatherhood affects men, which focuses almost exclusively on a child's arrival.