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Leverhulme International Network on New Families, New Governance 3rd Workshop, University of Notre Dame, USA 27-28 March 2014
In this presentation Professor Connolly reviews recent trends in the use of kinship care in Australia, and highlights that although kinship care has always been a major part of children’s care systems, there has been an important shift over the past twenty years toward the use of extended family systems to support and care for vulnerable children. In 2010, statutory kinship care…
This report, published by Save the Children Australia, analyzes the situation of the parenting support services for Indigenous communities in the Dampier Peninsula of Australia. The paper provides some background information on the Dampier Peninsula and its inhabitants, who are predominantly Aboriginal people belonging to three major settlements and more than 50 family-based outstations. The paper also includes a literature review on the factors affecting optimal Aboriginal family functioning, an analysis of local survey data, the scope of existing programs and their limitations, and a…
This article describes the results of a meta-analytic review aimed at providing an estimate of the prevalence of physical and emotional neglect by integrating prevalence figures from the body of research reporting on neglect. The authors conclude that neglect seems to be a neglected type of maltreatment in scientific research. This was apparent from the fact that the study could trace only a modest number of studies reporting on the prevalence of neglect: 16 for physical neglect including 59,406 participants, and 13 for emotional neglect including 59,…