Despite sufficient evidence to conclude that maltreatment exposure affects the risk of crime
and delinquency, the magnitude and specificity of effects of child maltreatment on crime and …

Children in foster care face heightened risk of adverse psychosocial and economic
outcomes compared with children in the general population. Yet, the effects of foster care as …

The objective of this meta-synthesis was to systematically synthesise qualitative research
that explores foster children's perspectives on participation in child welfare processes …

It is perhaps surprising that we lack complete national information about why children enter
foster care. While the annual Adoption and Foster Care Analysis Reporting System …

The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn greater attention to the plight of abused and neglected
children. Maltreatment incidence is likely on the rise, given the combination of social …

Purpose Caregiving for children in foster, kinship, and adoptive placements (hereon referred
to as resource parenting) is a challenging role that requires unique knowledge and skills …

Despite longstanding policy preferences favoring kinship care placements over non-relative
family foster care placements, research findings on the benefits of kinship care vary by …

While there have been ongoing calls to reform child welfare so that it better meets children's
and families' needs, to date there have been no comprehensive summaries of child welfare …

The current study applied a family systems approach to examine dyadic parental risk factors
linked with mother–father co-involved physical abuse, neglect, sexual abuse, and emotional …

The prevalence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) has been reported to be
disproportionately high among children in foster care compared with the general population …