This paper is based on the first comprehensive study of the health and educational status of children in kinship care, an increasingly frequent arrangement where children are placed in the care of relatives, mostly following neglect or abuse. Questionnaires were completed by teachers of 75% of the 374 school-age children in kinship care in one city, and additional information was obtained from ...

Re-entry to foster care generally refers to circumstances in which children who have been discharged from foster care to be reunified with their family of origin, adopted, or provided kinship guardianship are returned to foster care. In the context of the federal performance measurement system, re-entry refers specifically to a return to foster care following an unsuccessful reunification. The ...

The present study provides evidence of how positive social interaction and the perception psychological kinship are mechanisms by which identity fusion with host country is associated well-being Venezuelan migrants in Chile. sample consisted 323 migrants, whom 147 (45.5%) were men. participants residents city Santiago, variables assessed well-being, country, interaction, kinship. Structural equ...

The reticular approach to kinship Douglas R. White and Michael Houseman For l’Homme, Special issue on kinship Regardless of how marriage is locally defined, most people in most places marry (and/or have children with) people who are neither too close (immediate family members) nor overly distant (total strangers). As a result, many members of a given community are linked to each other by multip...

This essay addresses the power of formal analysis, and exemplifies some of the important issues that arise when we use formal analyses to address the substantive issues of kinship terminologies – and, through them, of category systems in general. These examples point to where a broad empirical understanding of kin terminologies can take us and indicate something of the potential import of kinsh...

This study examined self-concept, resiliency, and social support in 107 children and youth placed in foster care in New York City. Of the children and youth, 55 were placed in family foster care, while the remaining 52 children and youth were placed in a kinship foster home. Significantly more of mothers of the kinship foster care children and youth were homeless or substance abusing, yet visit...

Background and Purpose: Research indicates that many kinship families are in need of financial, emotional and intervention services (Linsk et al, 2009; Sakai, Lin, & Flores, 2011). Identifying their needs, however, is challenging due to kin caregivers’ diverse backgrounds and children’s various circumstances in out-of-home placement (Ynacura, 2013). Adding to these challenges is the lack of a r...

The kin term product calculations used by culture-bearers to compute kin relationships from kin terms without reference to genealogy are the basis for the structure of a kinship terminology and its underlying generative logic. The details of that logic account for differences in the structural forms for kinship terminologies. The structural form of the Polynesian kinship terminologies, like tha...

Five key problems of kinship networks are boundedness, cohesion, size and cohesive relinking, types of relations and relinking, and groups or roles. Approaches to solving these problems include formats available for electronic storage of genealogical data and representations of genealogies using graphs. P-graphs represent couples and uncoupled children as vertices, whereas parent-child links ar...

lakish dialect in darrehshahr belongs to kurdish language (southern kurdish) and is the common dialect of people who live in darrehshehr town of ilam county that is situated in the west part of iran which is highly changing under the influence of standard persian. the present article surveys linguistic relativity with the emphasis on kinship words of the lakish dialect in darrehshahr. firstly, ...