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Kinship Family Relatedness, Nuclear Family Contact, and Social Support Among Foster Youth.

Using a sample of 16-year-old youth placed with kinship foster families in California, the current study examines the relationship between kinship foster family structure and foster youth's biological family contact and support. Latent class analysis was used to examine differences in family structu...

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Published in:Journal of Public Child Welfare Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 1 - 27
Main Author: Zinn, Andrew
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jan-Mar2017
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        atl: Kinship Family Relatedness, Nuclear Family Contact, and Social Support Among Foster Youth.
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        affil: School of Social Welfare, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
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          Support, Psychosocial
          Child, Foster Psychosocial Factors
          Biological Parents
          Foster Parents
          Parent-Child Relations
          Sibling Relations
          Adolescence
          Human
          California
          Family Classification
          Child
          Adult
          Middle Age
          Descriptive Statistics
          Data Analysis Software
          P-Value
          Regression
          Confidence Intervals
          Odds Ratio
          Questionnaires
          Scales
          Interviews
          Male
          Female
          Adolescent: 13-18 years
          Child: 6-12 years
          Adult: 19-44 years
          Middle Aged: 45-64 years
          Male
          Female
      ab: Using a sample of 16-year-old youth placed with kinship foster families in California, the current study examines the relationship between kinship foster family structure and foster youth's biological family contact and support. Latent class analysis was used to examine differences in family structure based on the relatedness between foster youth and other members of the kinship family household. Subsequently, the respective relationships among household structure and foster youths' characteristics, experiences, and biological family contact and support were examined. We find that the kinship families serving foster youth are represented by four distinct household types, including sibling and grandparent households. Kinship family household type is found to be statistically significantly associated with youths' contact with siblings, closeness to caregivers, and perceived social support. Implications for kinship foster family scholarship are discussed.
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