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Covenants of wholeness: adoption and land tenure in Georgian England and the Hawaiian Kingdom
- Author:
- GIFFIN Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Adoption and Fostering, 30(3), Autumn 2006, pp.39-51.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The author suggests that throughout history adoption has reflected the social covenant of the society it existed to serve. For example, adoption served semi-feudal agrarian society in different ways from adoption in modern industrialised society. Adoption was once an agreement among extended families and allies, which did not mandate divorce from birth families and sought to advantage birth and adoptive families alike. While it often led to unexpected outcomes, if successful, adoption became a principal means of accruing the social and economic benefits on which sovereignty and commonwealth once depended. Through those benefits, adoption became a way of promoting wholeness, soteria in biblical Greek, a word from which the term salvation has evolved. After describing the ideas of covenant and wholeness, and the practices of land tenure and adoption, this article compares case studies of adoption in the Austen and Kamehameha families during a period in which Britain and Hawaii made their extraordinarily rapid transitions from semi-feudalism to constitutional monarchy. One conclusion drawn is that societies once thought conservative and exclusive are actually adaptive and inclusive. Another
The Help with Fostering Inventory
- Authors:
- ORME John G., CHERRY Donna J., RHODES Kathryn W.
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Youth Services Review, 28(11), November 2006, pp.1293-1311.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
This article presents a new measure of social support specific to fostering, the Help with Fostering Inventory (HFI). It was tested with a national sample of 304 foster mothers, and 111 foster parent couples. It measures help from worship groups (HFI-W), extended kin (HFI-K), and professionals (HFI-P). The HFI-W has excellent reliability for foster mothers and fathers; the HFI-P has good reliability for mothers, but was not tested with fathers; and the HFI-K has adequate reliability for mothers, but marginal reliability for fathers. Strong support exists for the validity of the HFI for mothers but not fathers; one or more subscales predicted important behavioural outcomes for mothers, including number of years fostered, number of children licensed to foster, intention to continue fostering, number of children fostered, and number of children adopted.
The nature of foster care: international trends
- Authors:
- COLTON Matthew, WILLIAMS Margaret
- Journal article citation:
- Adoption and Fostering, 21(1), Spring 1997, pp.44-49.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The nature of foster care is changing around the world. This article reviews developments in the purpose, definition and practice of foster care in countries as different as Argentina, Hungary, Finland, Italy, Zimbabwe and the UK. Argues that the growing emphasis on family support, reunification, and normalisation has implications for the way that foster care might be defined. With regard to practice, points to a trend towards diversification of foster care programmes so that increasing numbers of children with different and more challenging needs can all be served. Concludes by suggesting a new definition of foster care, aimed at encompassing the breadth and diversity of service needed to accommodate the changing needs of children everywhere.
A blueprint for fostering infants, children and youths in the 1990s
- Author:
- CHILD WELFARE LEAGUE OF AMERICA. National Commission on Family Foster Care
- Publisher:
- Child Welfare League of America
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 150p.
- Place of publication:
- Washington, DC
Outlines a comprehensive action plan to strengthen family foster care as a responsive and effective service for infants, children, young people and their families.
The supply of foster families for children in care
- Authors:
- BEBBINGTON A., MILES J.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 20(4), 1990, pp.283-307.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Reports on national survey of foster families, their circumstances, the characteristics of families who foster, and discusses issues of recruitment, allowances and support.
Families in perpetual crisis
- Authors:
- KAGAN Richard, SCHLOSBERG Shirley
- Publisher:
- W.W. Norton
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 222p., tables, bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- New York
Provides a number of strategies for encouraging families and working with entrenched patterns of resistance.
The biological children of foster parents in the foster family
- Author:
- KAPLAN Carol P.
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 5(4), Winter 1988, pp.281-296.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Reports the findings of a study of the reactions of foster parents' own children to the fostering experience.
Fostered children and children in the family
- Author:
- DOWNES Celia
- Journal article citation:
- Adoption and Fostering, 11(4), 1987, pp.11-16.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Results from a highly intensive study of interaction between 23 fostered teenagers and their foster families who were part of a teenage fostering project.
Children in care: paying their new families: a look at payments to foster and adoptive families in Denmark, Manitoba, New York State, Ontario and West Germany
- Author:
- SOUTHON Val
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health and Social Security
- Publication year:
- 1986
- Pagination:
- 317p.
- Place of publication:
- London
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Family preparation group for children
- Author:
- POWLEY Pamela
- Journal article citation:
- Adoption and Fostering, 9(1), 1985, pp.41-44.
- Publisher:
- Sage
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