This study examines how fostered individuals, foster carers, bio-legal children of foster
carers and birth parents use discourse to construct and maintain family identity and what …

Background Research reveals that children with childhoods characterised by placement (s)
in foster care have particularly complex and multi-dimensional understandings of family …

Background Foster children in non-kinship foster care experience multiple changes in their
family situation, leading them to reflect more on the meaning of family and where they …

The US foster care system aims to provide care to children who are unable to live safely with
their families of origin. Yet, fostered youth endure negative experiences before, during, and …

There are hundreds of thousands of children in foster care in the United States, nearly a
majority of whom are placed with nonrelative foster parents (US Department of Health and …

This paper reports on a longitudinal study of children growing up in long-term foster family
care. It focuses attention on the challenges for foster carers in providing a secure base for …

This study looks at the stories that foster carers and the young people in their care jointly
construct as they engage in discussion about their relationship. The research aimed to …

The aim of the study was to investigate foster parents' displays and narratives about family
life as foster parents of toddlers and preschool children and how these influence the welfare …

This thesis shows that foster youth can be active participants and agents in shaping their
own lives, both in terms of developing and breaking relationships. The aim of the thesis is to …

Although an understanding of the lived experience of foster care relationships can provide
valuable information to guide social work practice and policy, few such studies have been …