Foster care promotes adaptive functioning in early adolescence among children who experienced severe, early deprivation

Kathryn L. Humphreys, Devi Miron, Katie A. McLaughlin, Margaret A. Sheridan, Charles A. Nelson, Nathan A. Fox, Charles H. Zeanah - The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

The Bucharest Early Intervention Project sought to examine the effects of foster care as an alternative to institutional care for abandoned infants in Romanian institutions.

Are there population biases against migrant children? An experimental analysis of attitudes towards corporal punishment in Austria, Norway and Spain

Hege Stein Helland, Katrin Križ, Sagrario Segado Sánchez-Cabezudo, Marit Skivenes - Children and Youth Services Review

This article examines whether migrant children are viewed differently than native children, employing an experiment on a representative sample of the populations of Austria, Norway and Spain.

Harnessing the potential of administrative data to inform child welfare programming with dynamic visualization methodologies

Michael J.Tanana, Mindy J. Vanderloo, Jeffrey D. Waid - Children and Youth Services Review

To help promote the use of administrative data to inform child welfare programming, this paper provides an overview and demonstration of a Feedback Improvement System with web-based visualization technology to illustrate child- and agency-level child welfare data from the state of Utah.

Authors of accountability: Paperwork and social work in contemporary child welfare practice

Katherine Gibson, Gina Samuels, Julia Pryce - Children and Youth Services Review

This analysis drew from a study in which child welfare professionals were interviewed about their definitions of “well-being” and the barriers and facilitators to promoting well-being in their daily practices. 

Parental incarceration and child outcomes: Those at risk, evidence of impacts, methodological insights, and areas of future work

Anna R. Haskins, Mariana Amorim, Meaghan Mingo - Sociology Compass

In this review, the authors briefly outline who is most at risk for experiencing parental incarceration, before providing an overview of recent multidisciplinary research on the impacts of parental incarceration for American children, ages 0–17.