Children's voices: the perceptions of children in foster care.
Scant research exists on how abused and neglected children view the foster care experience and how these perceptions vary by demographic characteristics and placement type. Data come from a national probability sample of children placed in child welfare supervised foster care for at least 1 year. These findings indicate that children generally feel positively toward their out-of-home care providers and maintain hope for reunification with their biological family. Differences are present between children in family foster care, group care, and kinship care placements.
School of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. mimi@email.unc.edu
Mimi V
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Chapman
Ariana
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Wall
Richard P
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Barth
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology*; D002652:Child Behavior; D005260:Female; D005581:Foster Home Care; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012938:Social Perception; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires