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Abstract
Collaborative partnerships are a major factor in achieving positive outcomes for children, youth, and families. They can lead to a common and unified understanding of the needs of children, youth, and families; identification of gaps in services and supports; and coordinated efforts to address those gaps across child welfare and other human and social services. While it is recognized that progress has been made in developing policy and defining standards of practice related to supporting kinship families, there remains a need for continuous assessment of current policy and…
This position statement by Save the Children recognises that the word 'family' has different meanings to people around the world, encompassing diverse family structures, relationships, and power dynamics, across countries and cultures, and that it is also a dynamic concept with new variants on traditional family structures have emerged in response to social change, conflict, urbanization, HIV/AIDS and other crisis. The statement highlights that the family is central to numerous international legal instruments, including the UN…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Complex child care arrangements are a common feature of working life for parents in the United States. However, parents with low-wage jobs — and especially single parents with histories of welfare receipt — make these arrangements within unusually tight time and financial constraints while facing limited child care options. Analyzing rich data from in-depth ethnographic interviews conducted in Cleveland, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia, Next Generation researchers documented the challenges that low-income families face as they patch together a variety of arrangements to meet…