Unaccompanied minors and court mandated institutional care: A national registry-based study in Sweden

Mojgan Padyab, Malin Eriksson, Mehdi Ghazinour, Lena Lundgren - Children and Youth Services Review

The research question examined in this study is whether unaccompanied minors (UAMs) in compulsory care receive more restrictive actions by compulsory care staff compared to their counterparts who are non-UAMs.

Barriers to adoption and foster care and openness to child characteristics among transgender adults

Abbie E. Goldberg, Samantha Tornello, Rachel Farr, JuliAnna Z. Smith, Liam Miranda - Children and Youth Services Review

This study reports on trans adults’ fears of discrimination and openness to child characteristics in the adoption/foster care process in the U.S., relative to cisgender sexual minority parents.

Child, family and system variables associated to breakdowns in family foster care

Carme Montserrat, Joan Llosada-Gistau, Nuria Fuentes-Peláez - Children and Youth Services Review

The objectives of this study were: (a) to identify the rate of placement breakdown in Spain, understood as the unplanned termination of a foster placement; (b) to explore the variables associated with foster placement termination, and finally (c) to determine to what extent each variable can explain placement breakdown.

Familial risk and protective factors affecting CPS professionals’ child removal decision: A decision tree analysis study

Luca Milani, Serena Grumi, Elena Camisasca, Sarah Miragoli, Daniela Traficante, Paola Di Blasio - Children and Youth Services Review

The present study aimed to investigate both familial and mother/father-related risk and protective factors that influenced CPS (Child Protection Services) workers’ decision about the child placement through the “judgment analysis” approach.

The Long Shadow of Family Separation: a Structural and Historical Introduction to Mandated Reporting in the Domestic Violence Context

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.

Regional Leading Models of Foster Care: Features of Organization

Elena Bauer, Olesya Istrofilova, Asil Salavatova - Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

This article summarizes and analyzes the successful regional experience of foster care in Russia; the authors presented models of interaction between authorities, children and educators, allowing to create conditions for the formation of a socially responsible person, focused on the values of education.

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Promoting child-friendly approaches in the area of migration: Standards, guidance and current practices

The Council of Europe

This compilation contributes to the implementation of the objectives of the Action Plan on protecting refugee and migrant children in Europe, adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, by bringing together international and European standards on child-friendly practices in the context of migration with illustrations from practice of the kind of initiatives, programmes and procedures that serve to implement these standards.

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A Human-Centered Review of the Algorithms used within the U.S. Child Welfare System

Devansh Saxena, Karla Badillo-Urquiola, Pamela Wisniewski, Shion Guha

Using a human-centered algorithmic design approach, the authors of this study synthesize 50 peer-reviewed publications on computational systems used in the U.S. Child Welfare System (CWS) to assess how they were being developed, common characteristics of predictors used, as well as the target outcomes.

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