Kinship care has been growing rapidly across the English-speaking world over the last
decade. While family contact is an identified right of children removed from their families and …

The aim of the current study was to explore the relationship between the psychological
health of grandparents raising grandchildren, and those grandchildren's social, emotional …

Foster carers frequently report receiving insufficient or inadequate support for the
challenging behaviour of the children they look after. There is a need to understand the …

The number of children in need of out-of-home care (OOHC) continues to increase in
Australia, and numbers of kin carers (relatives of the cared-for) match or exceed those of …

In recent years, kinship care has become a major contributor to the delivery of out-of-home
care services in most Western jurisdictions. Over time, statutory kinship care has been …

Objective Using a cohort of foster and kin carers, the research examined the underlying
factor structure of the Parental Stress Scale (PSS; Berry & Jones, 1995). A hypothesized …

About half of kinship families live in poverty, and one third of them receive financial
assistance such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and foster care …

The size of Australian households and the forms they take have changed in profound ways
across the years. These trends result from the interaction of many factors; for example, the …

Australian and International data indicate that Indigenous children and young people are
overrepresented at all stages of child protection systems. Many factors contributing to this …

Objective The goal of this research was to map and identify service and social policy needs,
gaps, barriers, and enablers for Western Australian custodial grandparent carers …