“I wish someone would explain why I am in care”: The impact of children and young people's lack of understanding of why they are in out‐of‐home care on their well‐being and felt security

Jo Staines & Julie Selwyn - Child & Family Social Work

Drawing on a large‐scale online survey of looked after children's subjective well‐being, this paper demonstrates that a significant number of children and young people (age 4–18 years) did not fully understand the reasons for their entry to care.

Parent–professional interviews in child protection: Comparing viewpoints

Michel Boutanquoi, Dominique Ansel, Maryse Bournel‐Bosson - Child & Family Social Work

To analyse how professionals and parents position themselves, the authors of this study chose to focus on the content of social workers' interviews with parents and on the associated interactions. To this end, the authors recorded 13 parent–professional interviews after receiving the consent of the concerned parties.

Learning from parents: A qualitative interview study on how parents experience their journey through the Dutch child protection system

Helen Bouma, Hans Grietens, Mónica López López, Erik J. Knorth - Child & Family Social Work

The authors of this study interviewed 20 parents about their experiences with the Dutch child protection system (CPS).

Parental stress and parenting in Chinese immigrant families: The mediating role of social support

Shu‐Wen Liu, Fuhua Zhai, Qin Gao - Child & Family Social Work

This study investigated whether parental stress was associated with parenting and whether this relationship was mediated by social support in a sample of 255 Chinese immigrant parents from the Survey of Asian American Families in New York City.

Predictors of parenting stress in Portuguese adolescents' adoptive parents

Isabel‐Sofia Costa, Maria Barbosa‐Ducharne, Jesús Palacios, Joana Soares - Child & Family Social Work

The present study aims to identify the adoptee, parents and family related predictors of the adoptive parents' parenting stress, exploring direct and indirect effects. Fifty Portuguese adolescents' adoptive parents participated in this study.