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Exercising Agency for a Better Future: Adolescents in Korea's Kinship Care 为更美好的未来行使代理：韩国青少年的亲属关怀

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Child & Family Social Work Pub Date : 2026-10-06 Epub Date: 2026-01-04 DOI: 10.1111/cfs.70116

Eunju Lee, Choong Rai Nho, Jinjoo Hong, Eun Hye Kim, Jeesoo Jung

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Court Child Experts' Experiences in Assessing Parenting Cases Involving Parental Mental Illness 法庭儿童专家评估涉及父母精神疾病的育儿案件的经验

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Child & Family Social Work Pub Date : 2026-10-06 Epub Date: 2026-01-26 DOI: 10.1111/cfs.70133

Taegan A. Holford, Andrea E. Reupert

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Looking at a Blind Spot: Using a Longitudinal Population Cohort Study to Examine Inequalities in Child Social Worker Contact Among Mothers Experiencing Domestic Abuse in Scotland 观察盲点：使用纵向人口队列研究来检查在苏格兰遭受家庭虐待的母亲中儿童社会工作者接触的不平等

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Child & Family Social Work Pub Date : 2026-10-06 Epub Date: 2026-01-19 DOI: 10.1111/cfs.70112

Valeria Skafida, Eve Mullins, John Devaney

{"title":"Looking at a Blind Spot: Using a Longitudinal Population Cohort Study to Examine Inequalities in Child Social Worker Contact Among Mothers Experiencing Domestic Abuse in Scotland","authors":"Valeria Skafida, Eve Mullins, John Devaney","doi":"10.1111/cfs.70112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.70112","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Research on inequalities in children's services in the UK highlights a lack of systematic data on parental demographics, obstructing analysis of structural factors influencing children's outcomes. Using Growing Up in Scotland, a nationally representative longitudinal child cohort study of children born in 2004–2005, we investigate social inequalities in social work contact for children living with parental domestic violence and abuse (working sample <i>n</i> = 3216). Using logit models, we examine associations between self-reported maternal experiences of domestic violence and abuse (when children were aged 0–6 years old) and social work service contact for study children (across ages 2–7 years old), controlling for socio-demographic factors, illicit substance use, alcohol consumption, parental separation and maternal mental health. Maternal reports of domestic violence and abuse significantly increased the likelihood of social worker contact for the study child. Social worker involvement was far more likely in low-income households. Where domestic violence and abuse had been reported, social worker contact was twice as likely for boys than for girls. Findings suggest significant socio-economic disparities and gender discrepancies in the social work service response in the context of domestic violence and abuse. These patterns raise concerns about the potential for social work engagement being stratified by socio-economic status and underidentification of girls' needs in domestic violence and abuse contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":10025,"journal":{"name":"Child & Family Social Work","volume":"31 4","pages":"2187-2201"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cfs.70112","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149100526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Family Dynamics and Self-Esteem: The Impact of Perceived Parental Rejection on Adolescents and Their Adult Siblings 家庭动态与自尊：感知父母拒绝对青少年及其成年兄弟姐妹的影响

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Child & Family Social Work Pub Date : 2026-10-06 Epub Date: 2025-12-29 DOI: 10.1111/cfs.70117

Samira Binte Zaman, Azimeh Jafari Sadr, Sanjida Khan

{"title":"Family Dynamics and Self-Esteem: The Impact of Perceived Parental Rejection on Adolescents and Their Adult Siblings","authors":"Samira Binte Zaman, Azimeh Jafari Sadr, Sanjida Khan","doi":"10.1111/cfs.70117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.70117","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study examines the influence of perceived parental rejection on self-esteem among adolescents and their adult siblings within Bangladeshi family systems. Employing a cross-sectional survey design, data were gathered from 50 families, each comprising one adolescent (Mean<sub>Age</sub> = 12.50, SD<sub>Age</sub> = 1.50) and one adult (Mean<sub>Age</sub> = 20.98, SD<sub>Age</sub> = 2.37) sibling. The research investigates the effects of individual factors (age, gender and birth order) and family system variables (economic condition and family structure) on parental rejection and self-esteem perceptions. Adult and adolescent versions of the Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire (PARQ) short form for fathers and mothers and the self-esteem scale were administered. Findings reveal that adult siblings, especially firstborns, report higher levels of paternal rejection compared to adolescents. Gender analysis indicates that males perceive more significant paternal rejection than females. Mixed model analysis showed that perceived parental rejection significantly predicts lower self-esteem among siblings, with consistent effects across families. Furthermore, participants from nuclear families exhibit lower self-esteem compared to those from extended families, underscoring the protective role of extended family support. These results highlight the critical role of family dynamics in shaping self-esteem and suggest that mental health interventions should incorporate both immediate and extended family influences.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":10025,"journal":{"name":"Child & Family Social Work","volume":"31 4","pages":"2059-2071"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149100724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Perceived Supports and Barriers in Transitioning to Adulthood From Alternative Care: A Multinational Study of 962 Adults With Care Experience 从替代护理过渡到成年的感知支持和障碍：一项对962名有护理经历的成年人的跨国研究

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Child & Family Social Work Pub Date : 2026-10-06 Epub Date: 2025-12-22 DOI: 10.1111/cfs.70118

Amanda Hiles Howard, Megan Roberts, Peter K. Muthui, Paisley Willams, Nicole Gilbertson Wilke

{"title":"Perceived Supports and Barriers in Transitioning to Adulthood From Alternative Care: A Multinational Study of 962 Adults With Care Experience","authors":"Amanda Hiles Howard, Megan Roberts, Peter K. Muthui, Paisley Willams, Nicole Gilbertson Wilke","doi":"10.1111/cfs.70118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.70118","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Adults who experienced separation from parental care and resided in alternative care settings often face challenges transitioning to adulthood. This study explored perceived supports and barriers during this transition through an online survey of 962 care-experienced adults from over 20 countries. It combined demographic analysis and thematic analysis of qualitative responses. Key findings indicated that the reasons for separation from biological parents included parental death (29.9%), abandonment (22.2%), family instability (19.1%) and poverty (19.4%). The following three overarching themes emerged: (1) relationships and social networks, including the importance of supportive relationships and psychosocial services; (2) well-being and resilience, including how mental health challenges impacted functioning, while resilience led to growth; and (3) resources and opportunities, including how education and long-term support were vital, while financial difficulties and lack of resources hindered progress. Recommendations aimed to improve support systems for more stable transitions to adulthood are discussed.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":10025,"journal":{"name":"Child & Family Social Work","volume":"31 4","pages":"2025-2036"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149100112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Transmission of Parental Childhood Trauma to Aggression in Their Preschooler: Cognitive Appraisal and Marital Quality as Mediators 父母童年创伤对学龄前儿童攻击行为的传导：认知评价和婚姻质量的中介作用

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Child & Family Social Work Pub Date : 2026-10-06 Epub Date: 2026-01-10 DOI: 10.1111/cfs.70124

Liying Zhang, Xiaoping Yang

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The Relationship Between Paternal Marital Conflict, Parenting Stress and Parenting Efficacy on Children's Self-Regulation in Korea: The Mediating Role of Positive Parenting Style 韩国父母婚姻冲突、父母压力和父母效能对儿童自我调节的影响：积极父母教养方式的中介作用

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Child & Family Social Work Pub Date : 2026-10-06 Epub Date: 2026-01-11 DOI: 10.1111/cfs.70123

Jinsung Kim

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Quality Sibling Relationships: Perspective-Taking in Siblings From Divorced Families 高质量的兄弟姐妹关系：离异家庭兄弟姐妹的视角

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Child & Family Social Work Pub Date : 2026-10-06 Epub Date: 2026-01-14 DOI: 10.1111/cfs.70126

Sarah Hean, Wenche Hovland, Richard Piech

{"title":"Quality Sibling Relationships: Perspective-Taking in Siblings From Divorced Families","authors":"Sarah Hean, Wenche Hovland, Richard Piech","doi":"10.1111/cfs.70126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.70126","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Quality sibling relationships can help children manage the complexities of parental separation/divorce. Further perspective taking is a social competence developed through sibling interactions. However, little is known of the processes through which young people's experience divorce impacts on sibling relationship quality, nor how perspective taking between siblings plays out in divorced families. This paper explores this shortfall, focussing specifically on the role of perspective-taking for siblings who have experienced parental divorce. The study involved semi-structured interviews with 36 young people aged 16–24 in Norway who had experienced parental separation at various ages. Thematic analysis revealed that siblings agreed or disagreed on various perspectives, with agreement fostering harmony and disagreement causing tension. Key to resolving these tensions was the ability to rationalize the sibling's viewpoint. The paper presents a model suggesting that shared perspectives among siblings maintain cognitive consonance and generate positive emotions, promoting close relationships. Conversely, unresolved disagreements lead to cognitive dissonance, negative emotions, and ongoing conflict. However, cognitive dissonance can be resolved through explicit reflection, a skill that social workers and other supportive adults can help siblings develop. The paper then provides recommendations for social workers and other adults on promoting quality sibling relationships.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":10025,"journal":{"name":"Child & Family Social Work","volume":"31 4","pages":"2158-2169"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149100093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Negotiating Responsibility: Professionals' Perspectives on Separated Parents' Protective Duties in the Swedish Context 协商责任：专业人士对瑞典背景下离异父母保护义务的看法

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Child & Family Social Work Pub Date : 2026-10-06 Epub Date: 2025-12-29 DOI: 10.1111/cfs.70119

Emma Rindeskog, Lupita Svensson

{"title":"Negotiating Responsibility: Professionals' Perspectives on Separated Parents' Protective Duties in the Swedish Context","authors":"Emma Rindeskog, Lupita Svensson","doi":"10.1111/cfs.70119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.70119","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study explores how social workers perceive and enact informal protective arrangements in the context of Swedish child protection. Drawing on group interviews with practitioners, the findings reveal that social workers underline parents' legal obligation and duty to protect their children, which means that the safe parent is expected to restrict the child's contact with the parent deemed at risk. Therefore, child protection is framed less as a matter of social services' formal mandate and accountability and more as a process of informal handling through a parent's responsibility. Social workers describe themselves as constrained by legal frameworks and therefore reliant on parents' protective resources, which they activate by attributing, advising and ‘passing back’ responsibility. This is analysed as a cyclical process of negotiation in which the responsibility for protecting due to a power imbalance rests with the safe parent but without formal support, reflecting ongoing responsibilization trends. The study highlights how responsibility is distributed, resisted and negotiated in everyday interactions between social workers and parents and how protective parents may experience isolation and vigilance when implementing restrictions. The informal nature of protection measures based on parents' duty to protect suggests the emergence of ‘grey zones’ in child welfare.</p>","PeriodicalId":10025,"journal":{"name":"Child & Family Social Work","volume":"31 4","pages":"2072-2081"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cfs.70119","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149100725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Mental Health of Early and Prolonged Parent-Child Separated Children in Chinese Immigrant Families: A Qualitative Study With Parent-Child Dyads. 中国移民家庭早期与长期失散儿童的心理健康：亲子双元的质性研究。

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Child & Family Social Work Pub Date : 2026-08-28 DOI: 10.1111/cfs.70271

Weiyi Sunny Fu, Risa Yokoyama, Xihan Yang, Jian Lily Chen, Shaobing Su

{"title":"Mental Health of Early and Prolonged Parent-Child Separated Children in Chinese Immigrant Families: A Qualitative Study With Parent-Child Dyads.","authors":"Weiyi Sunny Fu, Risa Yokoyama, Xihan Yang, Jian Lily Chen, Shaobing Su","doi":"10.1111/cfs.70271","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cfs.70271","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Parent-child separation is a global crisis that has affected child and family well-being. Many low-income Chinese immigrant families in the US practice early and prolonged separation, sending US-born infants (\"satellite babies\") to China for extended family care and reuniting them around school age. However, little research has explored child mental health post-reunification, especially based on parent-child dyad reports. The present qualitative study explored child mental health based on key informative interviews from affected families (N= 24 parent-child dyads; N girls=12; Mean child age= 14.25; N mother=23), aiming to understand the potential impact of separation and inform future mental health research and services for these children. Results indicated that separated-reunited children exhibited negative outcomes such as avoidance of disclosure of mental health challenges, social withdrawal, externalized problems, internalized problems, and low-quality sleep. However, some children also exhibited some positive mental health conditions such as a positive perception of general mental health, high self-esteem, healthy social engagement, and high quality of sleep. These findings indicate mental health disparities within this group and highlight the need to investigate risk and protective factors that may contribute to these disparities. Tailored interventions are needed, especially for those facing serious mental health issues.</p>","PeriodicalId":10025,"journal":{"name":"Child & Family Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13596043/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149023971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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