Family matters? The effect of kinship care on foster care disruption rates

Andersen, Signe Hald; Fallesen, Peter

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2015.06.005

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“…The consequences for the children and caregivers are often unacknowledged in contemporary child welfare practices (Samuels, ). Instead, families providing kinship care are assumed to have natural capacities, secure attachments, and no need for support from clinicians (Andersen & Fallesen, ). Our findings suggest this assumption is a serious misconception, and underscore the need for interventions and supports for all family members.…”

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Promoting Recovery Identities Among Mothers with Histories of Addiction: Strategies of Family Engagement

Gunn

Samuels

2018

Family Process

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Changes in identity are critical to managing transitions to recovery from substance and alcohol addictions. Identity change is particularly important for mothers, whose recovery processes are often in the context of critical but complex family relationships and societal expectations. But research and practice often underestimate the relational dimensions that promote or inhibit changes in one's identity during recovery. Here we analyze data from a study that involved interviews with 30 formerly incarcerated women participating in a community‐based substance use treatment program in the Midwest. Drawing from Constructivist Grounded Theory Methods, our analysis identified three factors shaping levels of engagement with family members: (1) the relational consequences of a shared past; (2) ascribing permanence to the old identity of “addict” versus the ability to see women's capacity to change; and (3) the current provision of caregiving support to participants’ children. Our analysis supports and extends existing research by highlighting how family can both promote and inhibit a recovery identity process. We discuss potential implications for theorizing “recovery” and “identity” as relational and identify key elements to support practices more attuned to the hidden complexity of family support.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Promoting Recovery Identities Among Mothers with Histories of Addiction: Strategies of Family Engagement

Gunn

Samuels

2018

Family Process

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“…Kinship carers are more likely to live in disadvantaged neighbourhoods, public or overcrowded housing (Cox, 2014, Andersen andFallesen, 2015 than their peers and postpone retirement (Bailey et al, 2013, Brennan andCass, 2014). Those living in rural communities face further challenges because there are fewer community resources, transportation and social isolation.…”

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A Four-Nation Comparison of Kinship Care in the UK: The Relationship between Formal Kinship Care and Deprivation

McCartan¹,

Bunting²,

Bywaters³

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Social Policy and Society

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The practice of extended family and friends helping to care for children when their parents are unable to is an enduring tradition in many cultures. Kinship care provides the largest proportion of out of home care in Western society but many of these carers experience poverty and deprivation, and do not receive comparable levels of support, financial or professional, to other placement types. This study provides UK evidence for the relationship between kinship care and deprivation and examines how the welfare state frames kinship care in policy and practice.

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“…Holtan, 2008;Thørnblad & Holtan, 2011b), upbringing by relatives has primarily been studied as a service (e.g. Andersen & Fallesen, 2015;Chamberlain, Price, Reid, Landsverk, Fisher, & Stoolmiller, 2006;Cuddeback, 2004;Font, 2015;Winokur et al, 2014). Here, we use evaluative effect studies as a means of exploring the fruitfulness of this understanding in research.…”

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Kinship care or upbringing by relatives? The need for ‘new’ understandings in research

Skoglund¹,

Thørnblad²

2017

European Journal of Social Work

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This article addresses knowledge production on formal kinship foster care. In spite of growing interest in this phenomenon, little attention has been paid to how kinship care should be understood in researchas a service under child protective services or as upbringing by relatives. Each of these understandings leads to different research questions and creates guidelines for what falls into or outwith the focus of research. In kinship care research, this phenomenon has primarily been studied as a service. Research that seeks to evaluate the effect of kinship care compared to non-kinship care is used as a case to discuss the implications for the type of knowledge that researchers produce. While we acknowledge the importance of this research, we demonstrate the many challenges it involves and why this should not be the primary focus in kinship care research. On the background of these limitations, we argue in favour of approaching kinship care as upbringing by relativesas ways in which family life can be organised and structured. This can lead to relevant knowledge that will enable us to obtain a better understanding of what kinship care is and involves.

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Family matters? The effect of kinship care on foster care disruption rates

Cited by 28 publications

References 37 publications

Promoting Recovery Identities Among Mothers with Histories of Addiction: Strategies of Family Engagement

Promoting Recovery Identities Among Mothers with Histories of Addiction: Strategies of Family Engagement

A Four-Nation Comparison of Kinship Care in the UK: The Relationship between Formal Kinship Care and Deprivation

Kinship care or upbringing by relatives? The need for ‘new’ understandings in research

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