Foster care is the preferred type of out-of-home placement for children and youth when they
are not able to live with their own parents. However, placement instability, and its effect on …

Every year, a significant number of children are placed in family foster care. Although foster
children are at risk of behavioral problems, it is not yet clear which factors contribute to this …

The purpose of this systematic review is to compare the associations of kinship care and non-
kinship care with children's mental health and to examine the factors associated with …

Children placed in foster care families usually continue to see their birth parents in
supervised and home visits. These children deal with the fact that they belonged to two …

Objective The outcome of institutional youth care for children is heavily debated. This
multilevel meta-analysis aims to address the outcome of institutional youth care compared to …

Foster children are at risk for becoming less well-adjusted in their social-emotional
functioning due to possible abuse and neglect prior to placement. There is no consistent …

Contact with family for children in care is identified as a right under the U nited N ations C
onvention on the R ights of the C hild. However, such contact often presents challenges …

Kinship care has been growing rapidly across the English-speaking world over the last
decade. While family contact is an identified right of children removed from their families and …

Foster children (FC) are at risk of delayed development relative to their peers due to early
caregiver disruptions and adverse experiences prior to placement. Descriptive analyses and …

Family foster care is the option of choice for children in need of out‐of‐home care in
Flanders and the Netherlands. Foster care is however a vulnerable intervention, and …