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UrduWACO, Texas (June 23, 2021) – When an organization supports its employees who choose to adopt children, the employees, their families, the adopted children and the organization itself experience positive benefits and outcomes, according to new research from Baylor University.…
Tag: ADOPTION/FOSTER CARE
Orphans and exiles: Research shows the impact of family separation
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — New research from Binghamton University, State University of New York shows the human trauma and family separation that resulted from the Trump Administration’s zero tolerance policy on undocumented immigration. The news reports surrounding the Trump Administration’s “zero…
Study finds foster youth lack critical financial skills
VANCOUVER, Wash. – Most people rely on family members to help them learn how to open a bank account, find a job or create a budget, but that’s often not an option for youth in foster care, according to a…
Building a picture of fathers in the family justice system in England
The invisibility of dads who lose access to their children because of concerns about child neglect or their ability to provide safe care comes under the spotlight in new research. A research partnership between the University of East Anglia and Lancaster
Scientists see cross-group adoption of young bonobo apes in the wild for the first time
Scientists have witnessed bonobo apes adopting infants who were born outside of their social group for the first time in the wild. Researchers, including psychologists at Durham University, UK, twice saw the unusual occurrence among bonobos in the Democratic Republic…
Animal behaviour: Female wild bonobos provide care for infants outside their social group
Observations of groups of wild bonobos, reported in Scientific Reports, suggest that two infants may have been adopted by adult females belonging to different social groups. The findings may represent the first report of cross-group adoption in wild bonobos, and…
‘I just don’t think shelters work’
Institutions, not only family rejection, underlie LGBTQ youth homelessness
UTSA program provides housing solutions for students with a history of foster care
The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is the first university in the nation to receive a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), to launch a rapid-rehousing program for college students with a history…
Standardized measures needed to screen kinship foster placements
Researchers say there is no consistent way to evaluate the quality of care
School may be the key to improvement for children in social care
Children in social care have poorer mental health and perform worse in school than other children. But they have trust in the school staff and perform better after individual assessment at school. These are findings in a doctoral thesis from…
Not children, but ‘super-happy families’ the aim of assisted reproduction
Researcher Judith Lind has studied how staff at fertility clinics view the assessments that childless couples and women undergo in order to access assisted reproduction. It emerges in the interviews that the assessment of the potential parents is based on…
Not children, but ‘super-happy families’ the aim of assisted reproduction
Researcher Judith Lind has studied how staff at fertility clinics view the assessments that childless couples and women undergo in order to access assisted reproduction. It emerges in the interviews that the assessment of the potential parents is based on…
Grandfamilies: New study uncovers common themes and challenges in kinship care
George Mason University study provides framework to help social workers and other practitioners develop best practices for working with growing population of grandparents raising grandchildren who could be at greater risk due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Grandfamilies: New study uncovers common themes and challenges in kinship care
George Mason University study provides framework to help social workers and other practitioners develop best practices for working with growing population of grandparents raising grandchildren who could be at greater risk due to the COVID-19 pandemic
A child’s home environment can impact the risk of developing depression
New research, published online today in the American Journal of Psychiatry , finds that children’s rearing environment has a meaningful impact on their risk for major depression later in life, and notes the importance supporting of nurturing environments when children…
Mental health preparedness among older youth in foster care
When asked, many indicate they feel unready to manage their mental health
Leaving care of the children’s home — for prison?
The world expects some teenagers to become criminals. These “troublemakers” are taken away from everything and everyone they know. The State places them in children’s homes, often far from family and friends. “Care-leavers from children’s homes live with more layers…
Genetics contributes to mental health risks in adoptees
Genetics and early life stress both important factors for mental health problems in adults adopted as children, says large genetic risk study in Biological Psychiatry
Genetics contributes to mental health risks in adoptees
Genetics and early life stress both important factors for mental health problems in adults adopted as children, says large genetic risk study in Biological Psychiatry
Community-based counselors help mitigate grief among children orphaned in East Africa
A first-of-its-kind clinical trial involving more than 600 children in Kenya and Tanzania, in which community members were trained to deliver mental health treatment, showed improvement in participants’ trauma-related symptoms up to a year after receiving therapy, new research shows.…
Community-based counselors help mitigate grief among children orphaned in East Africa
A first-of-its-kind clinical trial involving more than 600 children in Kenya and Tanzania, in which community members were trained to deliver mental health treatment, showed improvement in participants’ trauma-related symptoms up to a year after receiving therapy, new research shows.…
Community-based counselors help mitigate grief among children orphaned in East Africa
A first-of-its-kind clinical trial involving more than 600 children in Kenya and Tanzania, in which community members were trained to deliver mental health treatment, showed improvement in participants’ trauma-related symptoms up to a year after receiving therapy, new research shows.…
Preterm children have similar temperament to children who were institutionally deprived
Children who are born preterm or at very low birth weight have similar temperament difficulties as children who were institutionally deprived early in life Researchers have found that a child’s temperament is sensitive to experiences in the early stages of…
Preterm children have similar temperament to children who were institutionally deprived
Children who are born preterm or at very low birth weight have similar temperament difficulties as children who were institutionally deprived early in life Researchers have found that a child’s temperament is sensitive to experiences in the early stages of…