This paper begins with a historic review of immigration policies in the United States aimed at supporting unaccompanied migrant children.
This article re‐examines data from an evaluation of a volunteering project for care leavers in the UK.
This study tested the hypotheses that inverse relationships would exist between connectedness in three social domains (i.e., caregiver, peers, and school) and suicidal ideation over time.
This article introduces an innovative mentalization-based treatment (MBT) parenting intervention for families where children are at risk of maltreatment.
This paper from the journal of Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk discusses the experiences of parents receiving family reunification services because their children have been placed in child and youth care centres in South Africa.
The International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES) is a comprehensive, multi-country study on men’s and women’s realities, practices, and attitudes with regard to gender norms, gender-equality policies, household dynamics, caregiving and fatherhood, domestic violence, sexual diversity, health, and economic stress, among other topics.
In this study from PLoS ONE, the relationship between family structure and positive adolescent sexual behaviour, measured as delay in sexual debut, was examined using the bioecological theory framed by a risk and resilience perspective. After controlling for other covariates, the study found that adolescents living with neither parent had lower odds of delaying sexual debut although results were only significant for males.
This paper from the Human Resource Management Review provides a typology that can be applied to the transnational family as a theoretical lens through which diverse forms of transnational families can be understood.
This chapter from Migration between Africa and Europe investigates family life in the context of international migration between Ghana and Europe. The chapter finds that transnational family forms, in which one or more members of the nuclear family are living abroad while the other members remain in the home or another country, are common.
In this chapter from the Handbook of migration and globalisation, the authors examine the relationship between family, globalisation and migration through the lens of care, focusing specifically on the experiences of transnational families.
