Parenting during adolescence is often followed by a range of untoward outcomes of young
parents and their children. The birth rate and experience of pregnancy and parenting for …

Adverse adulthood outcomes are well documented among youth who age out of foster care.
However, not all youth who age out of care experience deleterious adult outcomes, despite …

Recently there has been a fundamental shift toward greater federal responsibility for
supporting foster youth during the transition to adulthood. The Fostering Connections to …

The present study employed Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to explore the
experiences and meaning of motherhood among teen mothers in foster care. Through a …

Youth aging out of foster care are at particular risk for negative outcomes including school
dropout, homelessness, poverty, unemployment, substance abuse, health and mental health …

Few empirical investigations have been conducted examining sibling relationships among
youth in foster care, and even fewer have explored relationship warmth as a protective …

The objective of the current study was to produce a meta-synthesis of the existent qualitative
research on pregnant or mothering adolescents who have been in the custody of child …

This study explores the phenomenon of resilience among older adolescents in foster care.
Data from 351 youths approaching the age of emancipation were examined. Resilience was …

The concept of resilience has become an established, taken-for-granted concept in social
work. This poststructuralist discourse analysis of randomly sampled social work articles on …

The growing body of research on teenage motherhood in foster care has largely focused on
the risks involved for both mother and child, yet these mothers depict a much more complex …