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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"biological parents"”.
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A quantitative examination of self-regulation, parental experience, and age of biological parents.
… dysregulation presents substantial challenges to parents' well-being and healthy child development. Nonetheless, many parents find self-regulation a challenge to manage, which may result in adverse consequences (Lunkenheimer et al., 2023). The purpose of this quantitative cross-sectional survey …
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A critical ethnography exploring African American biological parents' experiences with child welfare service providers
… the actual experiences of African American parents have moved to the peripheral. There is little data available that speaks specifically to the extent to which African American families experience child welfare services as culturally sensitive and/or beneficial. The primary goal of this …
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Behavioural problems of children in foster care as affected by attachment to and visitation with biological parents
… that emphasise the important role that natural parents need to continue to play when their child is placed in foster care. The ways in which contact has been shown to assist children with identify formation, improved psychological health and increasing the chances of reunification, is discussed.
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Family risk factors related to adolescent adjudication
… the legal guardian was, marital status of their biological parents and legal guardian, their relationship with their legal guardian, biological parents' criminal record and drug/alcohol addictions, households on welfare, and race. Two-parent households. preferably consisting of the biological …
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An implementation and outcome evaluation of the Parent Centre's Teen Parenting Programme
… and caregiver relationships, extending beyond biological parents to include non-biological caregivers. This study evaluated the Parent Centre's Teen Parenting Programme, a parenting and life skills initiative facilitated by a dedicated team in Nyanga, Gugulethu, and Khayelitsha schools and …
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The strengths and difficulties of adopted children: a pilot study
… comparison with children who are raised by their biological parents, with a focus on the Cape Town area. Furthermore, this study sought to establish whether there was an association between demographic variables and adopted children’s total difficulties scores.
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Sociodemographic risk factors of glycemic control for youth with T1D: Cross-sectional and longitudinal patterns of HbA1c
… = 12.65, 77% Caucasian, 74% lived with married biological parents, M SES = 45.70) with average HbA1c of 8.43% and reported diabetes care behaviors consistent with ADA recommendations. Glycemic control did not deteriorate significantly, but IGC modeling detected a trend of a steady decline in …
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Family Studies of Sensorimotor Disturbances in Autism Spectrum Disorder
… with ASD (probands) and their unaffected biological family members. Previous studies have identified reduced saccade accuracy and increased variability of saccade in probands as well as analogous deficits in unaffected relatives. We also have recently demonstrated reduced accuracy and …
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Stepfamily relationships and attachment in young adulthood
… likely that the relationships between siblings, biological parents, and stepparents will all collectively impact the development of the caregiver-child relationship and subsequently their reports of attachment anxiety and avoidance. Thus, the purpose of this study is to (a) explore how …
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ETHNIC EFFECTS ON BIOLOGICAL, PSYCHOSOCIAL AND DISEASE CARE FACTORS IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN YOUTH WITH TYPE 1 DIABETES
… to investigate sociodemographic differences in biological, psychosocial and disease care factors in youth with type 1 diabetes. Additionally, diabetes knowledge was evaluated as a potential mediator of SES effects on HbA1c and disease care. The sample included 349 youth, age 9-17 years (79.9% …
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How Parenting Stress and Discouragement Impact Functioning Within Stepfamilies
… stepfamily functioning. Whether the parent was a biological parent or stepparent, whether the stepparent was a stepmother or stepfather, or whether the marriage had been formed more or less than two years was also considered. One assumption made was that increased parenting stress and …
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Stepping up, stepping back, being pushed, and stepping away : the process of making treatment decisions for children with cancer by parents who no longer live together
… the process of treatment decision making for parents of children with cancer who no longer lived together. Fifteen biological parents and stepparents of eight children with cancer who had made a major treatment decision in the past were interviewed. Using grounded theory techniques, the …
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The relationship of biological parent or relative involvement and academic success among special education students
… study was to examine the relationship between biological parent and relative involvement in special education students' lives and academic success. Also investigated was the relationship between biological parent and relative involvement in special education students' lives and the amount of …
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Parental visits to foster children in Guguletu : current patterns and recommended strategies
… patterns and recommended strategies. Foster and biological parents, children, as well as role players in the field of foster placement and visitation, were urged to participate actively in this study, as it is seen by the researcher to be an important document in the encouragement of family …
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Effects of Broken Marriage on Primary School Pupils’ Academic Performance in Ilala Municipality
… perception. The researcher recommends that parents should be responsible to their children by helping to make their marriages work in order to ensure the good welfare of their children. The community members, including teachers, neighbors and all who love children should make it their …
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Piecing it together : youth perceptions of the linkages between communication and adjustment to out-of-home placement
… which communication from the child welfare and biological family systems influences adjustment to out-of-home placement. Semi-structured in-depth interview, demographic, and eco-map data were collected from 14 youth between the ages of 18 and 24 who entered foster care at least once after the …
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Adoption : parents' perceptions of facilitating factors and challenges in the development of the relationship with their baby
The study explored the experiences of parents around their adoption process and relationship-building with their babies. It considered their motivation to adopt and their expectations of what that would entail. Challenges and facilitating factors were examined with regards to how their relationship …
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'n Ondersoek na die invloed van die belewenisse van maatskaplike werkers op die implementering van die statutêre verwyderingsproses
… from abuse, neglect and exploitation by their biological parents or carers. Although research has been done previously about the experiences of social workers with regards to the statutory removal process, the research was limited to studies in America and England. The goal of this study was to …
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Testing the orphanhood method against benchmark mortality rates in South Africa since 1996
… on the survival status of the respondent’s biological parents. The orphanhood method is widely used in developing countries where the vital registration is incomplete. In countries where the data on survival of parents has been compared with other mortality estimates, it has been observed …
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Family Stress and Early Intervention for Families of Infants and Toddlers with Complex Medical Needs
… study was guided by the question: What do parents of children ages 0-3 with complex medical needs say about the relationship between early intervention services and parental levels of stress? Five follow-up questions addressed the change in the participants' stress levels after 6 months of …
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