A moderated mediation model of the relationship between adolescent screentime, online privacy cognitions and exposure to online substance marketing
This study indicates that adolescent privacy-related cognitions may be an important mechanism for future studies related to adolescent online risk behaviour. Implications for child and family social work are discussed. (Source: Child and Family Social Work)
Source: Child and Family Social Work - December 11, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Erin Corcoran,
Nathan Wydra,
Nelsa Tejada,
Shimei Nelapati,
Joy Gabrielli Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Does marital satisfaction predict children aggression? Insights from parents' and children's psychological distress
This study aims to extend prior research by examining the direct effect of marital satisfaction on children's aggression and the intermediary roles of parents' and children's psychological distress. Using multi-stage cluster random sampling, a total of 971 children and their parents were recruited in Shaanxi Province in Mainland China. Self-reported questionnaires regarding marital satisfaction, psychological distress and aggression were completed. Results showed no significant direct impact of marital satisfaction on children's aggression, but children's psychological distress mediated this link. Moreover, parents' and ch...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - December 9, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Zhiyou Wang,
Xinwen Zhang,
Yajun Ye Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
‘You have to go hunting for information’: Barriers to service utilization among expectant and parenting youth with experience in foster care
AbstractUnique service needs exist for expectant or parenting youth with foster care histories (EPY) and their families. Informed by Critical Ecological Systems Theory (CEST), this exploratory qualitative study presents findings from an inductive content analysis of in-depth interviews and focus groups with EPY and service providers. The study included nine in-depth face-to-face interviews with service providers (n = 5) and EPY (n = 4) as well as five focus groups with service providers (n = 23) and three with EPY (n = 7) to identify the characteristics of service providers, agencies and systems that may ac...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - December 7, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Kalah M. Villagrana,
Ann Turnlund Carver,
Lynn C. Holley,
Ijeoma Nwabuzor Ogbonnaya,
Tonia Stott,
Ramona Denby,
Kristin M. Ferguson Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Care and COVID 19: Lessons for liberals and neoliberals
AbstractWithin the liberal political traditions, care is regarded as a private matter, a problem of ethics rather than justice. Social justice is framed as an issue of economics (re/distribution), culture (recognition) and/or politics (representation). The pandemic challenged this liberal patriarchal paradigm; it placed the care relational lives of human beings centre stage in terms of social justice, not only in terms of who did or did not do the caring, who was and was not cared for, but who was capable of caring while balancing paid-work time with care-work time. The pandemic also challenged dominant ontological assumpt...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - December 7, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Kathleen Lynch Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Organizational and service support for boys' pathways out of commercial sexual exploitation in Nepal: Key learning for an under ‐recognized population
This study, conducted in Kathmandu, Nepal, adopted a mixed-method approach, combining data from actor mapping, survey, and in-depth case studies. It explores (1) what services are available for boys with CSE experience; (2) how services help boys to exit the commercial sex sector; and (3) what the future service needs are for boys with CSE experience. In our sample, most of the boys who had been involved in the CSE industry as minors, identified themselves as sexual minorities. The findings suggest that despite the inadequacy of the services available for boys with CSE experience, around half of the boys who successfully e...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - December 2, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Xiaochen Zhou,
Lucy P. Jordan,
Patrick O'Leary Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Navigating the Australian child protection system: The importance of formal and informal support for carers to effectively provide care to children in out ‐of‐home care
AbstractChildren in out-of-home care (OOHC) are a vulnerable group who often experience poorer outcomes than their peers who are not in OOHC. In 2020 –2021, there were approximately 46 200 children in OOHC in Australia, with 91% in a family setting with foster or kinship carers. Data from other countries show similar patterns indicating that foster and kinship carers provide care for most children in OOHC. To effectively provide children in O OHC with the care they require, including safety, stability, and connection, the carers need a social support system that equips them to meet the needs of these vulnerable childre...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - December 2, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Jemma Venables,
Jenny Povey,
Madonna Boman,
Karen Healy,
Janeen Baxter,
Sophie Austerberry,
Kate Thompson Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
The outsider within: The agentic practices of Family Group Conference coordinators in the context of families with children at risk
This study contributes to the body of knowledge on participatory child welfare models and agentic practices and offers implications for policy and implementation of FGC in a manner that recognizes and respects families' agency. (Source: Child and Family Social Work)
Source: Child and Family Social Work - December 1, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Jordan Shaibe,
Orna Shemer Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
When young people age out of care: Foster care in a life course and network perspective
This article explores foster carers' perspectives building on interviews with foster carers from both Norway and Sweden about their views on relational continuity. Life course and network theory are used as theoretical lenses to understand the opportunities and challenges for further contact both with cares and extended foster family. Findings suggest that foster carers have a lifelong perspective, still the relationship can be uncertain and some result in breaks. Viewed from a life course perspective, the relationships can also be renewed, and foster carers and other members of the foster family seem to be important sourc...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - December 1, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Inger Oterholm,
Ingrid H öjer Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
“Fighting the invisible system”: A grounded theory study of the experiences of child protection social workers in England
This article reports on an exploration of social workers' perspectives on the social policy and agency processes that shape their experiences of working in child protection services. A qualitative constructivist grounded theory methodology was employed, and 17 qualified social workers and managers were recruited. Social workers described working within an oppressive system, balancing unrealistic demands placed on them, and struggling to restore balance and hope. They shared how this filtered into the work they do with families and the role that relationality and peer support has in surviving the work. (Source: Child and Family Social Work)
Source: Child and Family Social Work - November 30, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Charlie Brazil,
Lizette Nolte,
Barbara Rishworth,
Brian Littlechild Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Fathers with intellectual disabilities raising children with disabilities in Poland: An interpretive phenomenological analysis
AbstractResearch on parents with intellectual disabilities and their children tends to focus on individual risk and those factors associated with child maltreatment. Interviews and Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used to explore the lived experience of 10 Polish fathers with intellectual disabilities raising children with disabilities. Three main themes emerged: (1) everybody's got something, (2) on being a father, and (3) finding meaning. The findings indicated that participants focused on strengths rather than disability diagnoses. They did recognize that they experienced various challenges associated with m...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - November 28, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Katarzyna Ćwirynkało,
Monika Parchomiuk,
Patricia Fronek Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
The role of parental aggravation in the intergenerational transmission of depression across different family structures
This study examined the role of parental aggravation in the pathway from maternal depression to child depression in different family structures. While studies have extensively examined the transmission of maternal depressive symptoms to children, there is still a limited emphasis on potential contributors, such as parental aggravation. Meanwhile, cohabiting and single-parent families are more vulnerable to multiple risk factors than married families. Using a large national longitudinal dataset, this study examined the indirect effect of parental aggravation on the association between maternal depression and child depressio...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - November 28, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Yangjin Park,
Pa Thor,
Sejung Yang Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Neglecting to consider early emotional development after abuse and/or neglect: Insights and recommendations from child welfare providers
AbstractLaying a strong foundation for emotional development in children birth to 5 is of critical importance, but the extent to which this is considered following child abuse and/or neglect, foster care placement, reunification, and potential re-entry into foster care remains unclear. Using a convergent mixed methods design, we investigated perceptions among child welfare professionals given the contributing role they could play in both initiating provider –parent dialogue and connecting families with timely resources to better support early emotional development post-abuse/neglect. Fifty eight child welfare professiona...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - November 27, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Nicole Megan Edwards,
Carlomagno C. Panlilio Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Integrated model of maternal caregiving in child HIV management in Chinese mother –child dyads living with HIV: A qualitative dyadic analysis
This study used dyadic-level qualitative analyses of semi-structured, one-on-one interviews among 20 mother –child dyads (n = 40; children aged 12–18 years) living with HIV in southern China. Interviews examined the perspectives of both mothers and children on the maternal caregiving in child HIV management and child adaptation outcomes. Our findings showed that based on a dual-dimension model of the extent of m aternal involvement in child HIV management and the intimacy of the mother–child relationship, four categories of maternal caring emerged among the mother–child dyads: supportiveness (n = 4, 20%),...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - November 27, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Shiyun Ji,
Xiaoliang Zeng,
Chen Chen,
Rong Fu,
Zhiyong Shen,
Xiaoming Li,
Nancy Xiaonan Yu Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Revisiting the influence of community social capital indices on child maltreatment rates: The moderating effects of place
This study investigates the effects of community social capital on child maltreatment and how these associations differ by regional type, using data on child maltreatment rates in 226 localities in South Korea from 2014 to 2019. Surprisingly, our results show that social trust, networks, and engagement in community affairs are positively associated with child maltreatment rates. Additionally, the mechanisms of social capital effects on child maltreatment vary by place, being more pronounced in small- and medium-sized cities and rural areas. Our findings suggest that a more nuanced understanding of social capital mechanisms...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - November 21, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Intae Kim,
Ran Kim Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Cyber victimization with increasing digitization during the COVID ‐19 pandemic and coping strategies used by adolescents
This study aimed to reveal the cyberbullying victimization experiences of adolescents with the increased digitalization during the pandemic and the coping strategies they employed. The study is a descriptive and cross-sectional study. The research sample consists of adolescents (n = 344). The data were collected online using Personal Information Form, Cyber Victim Scale, and Coping with Cyberbullying Scale. The mean Cyber Victim Scale score of the adolescents was 21.97 ± 5.83, and the mean Coping with Cyberbullying Scale score was 63.33 ± 9.06. It was found tha t the increase in the frequency of Internet use,...
Source: Child and Family Social Work - November 13, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Ayla Hendekci,
Eda Albayrak,
Nuray Şimşek Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
