Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/03085759231163883a
Kerry O'Halloran
mother’s mental health and an ongoing failure to seek support in a timely manner; (iv) issues with household budgeting; (v) ongoing tension between the couple relating to household tasks; and (vi) at times a failure to recognise parenting responsibilities in relation to Joy’s needs.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/03085759231162372
Katherine Shelley, H. Vawda, L. Tirupatikumara
The process of adopting a child or young person in the UK often happens through an agency. This can be either a local authority agency (in England, Scotland or Wales), a health and social care trust (in Northern Ireland) or a voluntary adoption agency. As part of this process, every child to be matched with prospective adopters goes through a series of discussions with an adoption panel consisting of independent experts, including social workers and a medical advisor (MA), and decisions are made by an agency decision maker. One of the responsibilities of the MA is to provide a summary (referred to hereafter as the ‘adoption report’) of ‘the state of the child’s health, their health history and any need for
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1177/03085759221138107
G. Clapton, J. Simpson, Catriona Grant
This paper reports on survey work and group discussion by a Scottish parent-led support group (Parents Advocacy and Rights – PAR) that supports parents with children in the care system. A previous paper has been published discussing an overview of the survey results (www.pfan.uk/uncovering-the-pain/). The present paper delves further into parents’ particular experiences of contact. The responses are preceded by a critical retrospective of the concept of contact. Our retrospective covers the language of contact, contact’s origins, continuing confusions of meaning and the lack of appreciation of the parental experience and points to the artificiality of contact, the impracticalities of contact arrangements and the toll taken by these. We conclude by pointing out that we are in the fourth decade of recommendations about contact between parents and children in state care. We make the observations that there is a continuing failure to empathise with parents’ experience of deprivation and loss, a lack of comprehension of the depth of detriment to parental identity caused by the process and practices of contact and avoidance of discussion of the damage to the parent–child relationship which, irrespective of the ultimate destination of a child in state care, cannot be obliterated.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1177/03085759221144316
R. Pollock
RH, born in January 2021 and 21 months old at the time of the hearing, was the child of unmarried parents. She was released from hospital three days after birth into foster care by voluntary agreement, although an interim care order was immediately applied for and granted. The mother had six older children by another man, all of whom were the subject of social services intervention in the Republic of Ireland and all in long-term foster placements in that country; She had no contact with any of them. The father had an older child (by another woman), NG, the subject of a care order in a long-term foster placement. The mother and father also shared another child, GA, who was younger than RH and was the subject of an interim care order. The Trust’s present applications were for a care order, with a care plan of permanency by way of adoption, and for an order freeing RH for adoption and dispensing with the consent of both parents; applications supported by the guardian ad litem but opposed by each parent. All issues – threshold, care plan of adoption, dispensing of the parents’ consent and contact – were contested.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1177/03085759221137356
T. Ostler, Min Zhan, E. Bronfman
The Attachment Style Interview (ASI) is increasingly being used to assess parenting suitability in adoption and fostering settings. More research is needed, however, to establish how the ASI relates to parenting behaviour. This study addressed this need by examining the relations between the ASI and an observational measure of parenting behaviour in 66 women with children between the ages of one and six years in the US. The Atypical Maternal Behavior Instrument for Assessment and Classification (AMBIANCE) provided an overall assessment of five disrupted parenting behavioural dimensions: (1) intrusive/negative; (2) role confused; (3) fearful/disoriented; (4) withdrawing; and (5) affective communication errors. A secure adult attachment style was associated with optimal parenting. Two insecure attachment styles, the insecure angry–dismissive and insecure enmeshed styles, were linked to disrupted parenting behaviours. Mothers with disrupted parenting struggled to make and maintain supportive relationships with close others. In addition, they were highly mistrustful of others and evidenced psychological constraints about closeness and attitudes of anger, and extreme self-reliance or contradictory attitudes about help and self-reliance. The findings were upheld in multivariate analyses which included maternal depression and other significant demographic variables. The study provides strong support for the utility of ASI as one useful assessment tool for fostering and adoption settings.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1177/03085759221138577
N. Anuszkiewicz, Beata Sztyber, Barbara Baranowska
The breastfeeding of adopted children is a rare phenomenon but one that deserves attention because of its potential benefits. The aim of this study was to gather information on the breastfeeding of adopted children in Poland and in other high-income countries and to identify its determinants. Milk banks, adoption centres and forums for breastfeeding mothers were surveyed. The research revealed a high level of interest in the issue among adoptive mothers and a simultaneous lack of information on the part of the employees of adoption centres and milk banks. The study concluded that: (1) adoptive mothers are interested in breastfeeding their adoptive children. They should therefore be equipped with the relevant knowledge and tools to enable them to try to breastfeed; (2) the prevalence of adoptive breastfeeding is similar in Poland and worldwide, but in other developed countries the necessary information is more widely available; (3) milk banks in Poland and around the world do not include adopted children among their beneficiaries; and (4) the idea of adoptive breastfeeding is not promoted by Polish adoption centres, so it is essential to start popularising it.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1177/03085759221140875
Reecha Acharya, Ajesh George, H. Ng Chok, D. Maneze, Stacy Blythe
Foster and kinship carers play an integral part in establishing oral health promoting behaviours and managing the oral health issues of children in out-of-home care (OOHC). This study aimed to explore the knowledge, experiences and support needs of Australian foster and kinship carers in maintaining the oral health of children living in OOHC, using semi-structured interviews with eight purposively sampled carers. Results showed that the participants understood the importance of good oral health for general well-being and were motivated to implement good oral hygiene practices with the children in their care. The challenges encountered by foster and kinship carers included: a lack of information from foster care agencies regarding the oral health needs of children; difficulty in the pre-approval processes for dental treatment; and poor communication between carers and foster care agencies. Systemic challenges included: transience and frequent changes in the child’s foster placement; long waiting lists for dental treatment; and lack of dental professionals. We conclude that foster and kinship carers need support to promote the oral health of children in OOHC and that systemic barriers must be identified and addressed.
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