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{"title":"Symptom structure of complex posttraumatic stress disorder among de facto unattended children in China: A network analysis.","authors":"Yiming Liang, Yue Sun, Jiarui Hong, Juzhe Xi","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.107170","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.107170","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Backgrounds: </strong>Complex posttraumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) is closely related to childhood trauma, yet there is a dearth of studies that have explored the symptoms of CPTSD among children in adversity.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>The current study aimed to explore the structure of the CPTSD network and to identify central symptoms in a sample of de facto unattended children in China.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In total, 244 children and adolescents were included in the analysis, ranging from 9 to 16 years old (11.72 ± 1.64), with 45.49 % girls and 53.67 % boys. The International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ) was used to assess CPTSD symptoms. We used a regularized partial correlation network to identify which symptoms had a high level of strength centrality or bridge centrality, and a Bayesian network to identify the upstream symptoms.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results showed that avoidance and emotional numbing had the highest level of strength centrality. Exaggerated startle response and emotional numbing had the highest level of bridge centrality. Last, re-experiencing was identified as upstream in the Bayesian network. Developmental differences are observed in CPTSD symptom centrality compared to adult populations.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings offer insight into key symptoms of CPTSD in vulnerable children and adolescents. We revealed that children and adolescents in adversity who exhibit avoidance, emotional numbing, and re-experiencing should be given more attention.</p>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"159 ","pages":"107170"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142774456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Child maltreatment mortality in Canada: An analysis of coroner and medical examiner data.","authors":"Natasha Richmond, Amy Ornstein, Lil Tonmyr, Susie Dzakpasu, Chantal Nelson, Nathaniel J Pollock","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.107127","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.107127","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Fatalities are the most severe consequence of child maltreatment, but there are gaps in what is known about the epidemiology of such deaths in Canada.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>The objectives of this study were to: (1) identify child maltreatment deaths among those classified as homicide or undetermined manner; (2) estimate rates of child maltreatment mortality by sex, age, geography, and year; and (3) measure differences between rates of child maltreatment mortality and homicide mortality.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We used a cross-sectional design and analyzed mortality data from the Canadian Coroner and Medical Examiner Database for a ten-year period (2007 to 2016). To identify child maltreatment deaths, we reviewed narrative data about children aged 0 to 17 years old whose deaths were classified as homicide or undetermined. Descriptive statistics, mortality rates, and incidence rate ratios were calculated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among the 1758 child deaths due to homicide or an undetermined manner, maltreatment was the probable cause in 20.4 % (n = 359) of deaths; most child maltreatment deaths (72.1 %, n = 259) were among children younger than 5 years old. The national child maltreatment mortality rate was 0.55 deaths per 100,000; the rate was highest among infants (3.43 per 100,000) and decreased at older ages.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study provides evidence about the epidemiology of child maltreatment mortality in Canada.</p>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"159 ","pages":"107127"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142774433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Teenagers' emotional symptoms and antisocial behavior in group home care: A myth or reality?","authors":"Gershon K Osei","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.107172","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.107172","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Child advocates, group home and child protection workers report high levels of emotional symptoms and antisocial behavior among teenagers living in group homes. Extant studies is, however, silent on the prevalence of emotional symptoms and its association with teenagers' antisocial behavior in group homes.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>The study aims at examining the association between emotional symptoms and teenagers' antisocial behavior and how prevalent emotional symptoms are among teenagers living in group homes.</p><p><strong>Participants and setting: </strong>A total of 875 teenagers living in group homes in Ontario, Canada were included in the study.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Ontario Looking After Children data of cohorts surveyed in 2010-2015 was used for analysis. The data included participants' gender, age, ethnicity, general health status, academic challenges, conduct problems, group home size and emotional symptoms.</p><p><strong>Result: </strong>Teenagers' emotional symptoms was found to be associated with their antisocial behavior (OR = 2.49, 95 % CI 1.83, 3.39). Sixty-three percent (63 %) of the teenagers experience emotional symptoms of anxiety on regular basis, four out of every 10 of them show depressive symptoms. Majority of them (73.7 %) get nervous when faced with new situations and can lose confidence in such instances and 54.5 % of them could easily get scared in such situations.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Findings suggest that there is a significant association between teenagers' emotional symptoms and their antisocial behavior. Findings also show that there is significant prevalence of emotional symptoms among teenagers in group homes in Ontario. The social and clinical implications make future research into the issue important.</p>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"159 ","pages":"107172"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142774458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The role of childhood maltreatment and mental health disorders on suicidal behaviour in adolescents.","authors":"S Gómez-Vallejo, M Díaz-Marsa, V Fernández Rodrigues, J Andreo-Jover, T Bobes-Bascarán, A I Cebrià, B Crespo Facorro, N Garrido-Torres, A González-Pinto, L Jiménez-Teviño, E Lara, M P Lopez-Peña, A Palao-Tarrero, D J Palao, V Pérez, M Ruiz-Veguilla, P A Sáiz, Y Sánchez-Carro, A de la Torre-Luque, E Vidal Bermejo, E Vieta, I Zorrilla, N Roberto, I Grande, J Bobes, Luisa Lázaro, Lorenzo Bracco, Fernando Corbalán, Natalia Fares, Wala Ayad-Ahmed, José Luis Ayuso-Mateos, Jennifer Fernández-Fernández, Ainoa García-Fernández, Adriana Garcia-Ramos, Carlos Imaz, Itziar Leal-Leturia, Luis Olivares, Beatriz Payá, Andres Pemau, Carla Perez-Guerra, Elisa Seijo-Zazo, Nuria Tur","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.107151","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.107151","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Suicide stands as a grave and pressing public health concern, ranking among the foremost causes of death in the youth demographics. While childhood maltreatment (CM) and mental disorders have garnered substantial attention as risk factors for suicide, there remains an enigmatic aspect concerning how these two elements interact, influencing the nature of suicidal ideation and suicidal behaviour, and the transition between them.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study endeavours to shed light on the intricate interplay between CM, mental disorders, and suicide.</p><p><strong>Participants and setting: </strong>We gathered data from 289 adolescents aged 12-17 (87.2 % female) drawn from eight different hospitals across Spain, all of whom had attempted suicide within the past 10 days.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We assessed suicidal ideation severity and intensity, suicidal behaviour by attempts using the C-SSRS, and the presence of CM using CTQ and identified concurrent mental disorders according to the MINI. Regression analysis and moderation analysis were conducted by PROCESS macro.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Moderation analysis revealed that higher scores of CM were associated with a higher number of suicide attempts with the presence of a mental disorder. Additionally, we found that those with higher scores of CM reported less severe characteristics of suicidal ideation, when presenting along with an anxiety disorder.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings revealed CM increased risk of suicidal behaviour among young individuals. Additionally, the results suggest that adolescents with CM and anxiety disorder might under-report suicidal ideation. Hence, these findings offer a potential key to identifying and preventing suicide risk among young individuals.</p>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"159 ","pages":"107151"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142781778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Childcare subsidy receipt and reduced emotional neglect: Examining parents' enhanced self-efficacy as a mediator.","authors":"Olivia D Chang, Kathryn Maguire-Jack, Katherine E Marçal, Kathryn Showalter, Yanghyun Park, Rujeko O Machinga-Asaolu, Eric Thibodeau, Catherine A Murphy, J Bart Klika","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.107184","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.107184","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Each year 1.5 million children receive childcare subsidized under the Child Care and Development Fund, which supports working parents with low income in affording childcare; such policies hold promise for reducing child neglect.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>The current study sought to examine how receiving childcare subsidies might reduce emotional neglect by supporting working parents' self-efficacy.</p><p><strong>Participants and setting: </strong>Data came from the Future of Families and Child Well-being Study (FFCWS) which oversampled births to unmarried mothers in large U.S. cities. The current study focused on the third wave of the study, when focal children were age three, and when many parents were using childcare.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The associations between childcare subsidy receipt, parent self-efficacy, and emotional neglect were analyzed with path modeling using a structural equation modeling framework. Furthermore, we estimated the indirect effect of subsidy receipt on emotional neglect via parent self-efficacy.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Receipt of the childcare subsidy was significantly associated with decreased emotional neglect (b = -1.24, p = .045) and increased parent self-efficacy (b = .16, p = .004). Self-efficacy was significantly associated with decreased emotional neglect (b = -1.27, p < .001). The path model results showed a significant mediating effect of self-efficacy on the link between receipt of the childcare subsidy and emotional neglect (b = -.20, p = .01).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The present study highlights the potential for increasing access to affordable, high-quality childcare to improve parent and child well-being. Subsidies that increase access to high-quality childcare can benefit both mothers and children.</p>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"159 ","pages":"107184"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142774451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Family support among young adults: The role of childhood maltreatment.","authors":"Melissa Radey, Lenore McWey","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.107162","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.107162","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Success in young adulthood marked by independence and exploration is not universal. Parentification, when young people acquire adult roles before they are developmentally ready, and family support patterns suggest potential differences based on childhood maltreatment history hence widening inequalities.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study aimed to describe family-of-origin support patterns among young adults with various levels of exposure to child maltreatment and child protective services (CPS).</p><p><strong>Participants & setting: </strong>The study leveraged Year 22 data of the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing dataset; a national, longitudinal, birth-cohort study of U.S. children born in 1998-2000.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We used bivariate statistics and logistic regressions to examine maltreatment exposure, socioeconomic conditions, and family-of-origin relationships.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Those with out-of-home care and CPS contact without out-of-home care had lower odds of contact and feeling \"extra\" close to their caregiver compared to those without reported maltreatment, and those with out-of-home care had lower odds of receiving financial support from family for bills (OR = 0.62, 95 % CI [0.42, 0.92]). Those with out-of-home care had higher odds of providing dependent care to family members (OR = 1.67, 95 % CI [1.02, 2.72]); and those with CPS contact only had higher odds of supporting family members financially (OR = 1.79, 95 % CI [1.29, 2.47]).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Findings suggest the importance of public support programs to assist those with maltreatment histories susceptible to the absence of parental support and additional demands of support provision. Understanding young adult-parent relationships within the context of childhood maltreatment is critical to promote well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"159 ","pages":"107162"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142781776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Navigating the services maze: Assessing service needs, referrals, receipts, and child protective services re-report and foster care entry outcomes.","authors":"Chien-Jen Chiang, Hyunil Kim, Mi Youn Yang, Melissa Jonson-Reid, Catherine LaBrenz, Jun-Hong Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.107164","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.107164","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Research shows that families involved with Child Protective Services (CPS) have diverse needs not fully met by service referrals and provision. Furthermore, it is still unknown whether the service provision gaps are linked to child safety and permanency outcomes.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study aims to address this research gap by evaluating the rereport and foster care entry outcomes of child welfare services based on the needs, referrals, and receipt of services for families involved with CPS.</p><p><strong>Participant and setting: </strong>The National Survey on Child and Adolescent Well-being II (NSCAW II) was used for this study, excluding children with prior reports and those in foster care to focus on re-report and foster care entry outcomes, reducing the sample from 5872 to 2580 children.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Logistic Regression analyses were performed to investigate the relationship between services needed, referred, and receipts and child welfare outcomes. The analyses were structured into three sets of models to explore different aspects of service engagement and its impact on child welfare outcomes.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Our study shows that specific CPS services, particularly caregivers' needs for mental health and substance misuse services, significantly impact the likelihood of re-reporting and foster care placements.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Most families contacting the child welfare system receive only case management services if their report moves beyond investigation. Such an approach requires that services are available, acceptable, and of sufficient quality to meet needs. This paper highlights crucial disparities in service needs, referrals, and receipts among families engaged with CPS.</p>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"159 ","pages":"107164"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142787574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The impact of childhood sexual abuse and paternal rejection on economic marginalization in adulthood: A prospective population-based study of women in Sweden.","authors":"Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir, Jesper Löve, Gunnel Hensing, Kirsten Mehlig","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.107137","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.107137","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Childhood maltreatment has detrimental health consequences. Risk for economic marginalization in adulthood is less clear.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To assess prospective associations between sexual abuse, paternal rejection and maternal rejection in childhood and indicators of economic marginalization. We also examined whether these associations were moderated by the adult women's own education and social support.</p><p><strong>Participants and setting: </strong>A population-based cohort of 643 Swedish women aged 20-25 were asked to retrospectively report on childhood maltreatment. Information on economic marginalization was obtained from register follow-up until 2017.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Cox proportional hazard regression was used to assess the associations between childhood maltreatment and incident economic marginalization, and whether these associations were modified by the women's education and social support in adulthood. Regression models were adjusted for parental characteristics and the women's contentment with life at examination.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Sexual abuse increased the risk of financial welfare assistance and disability pension, but no association with long-term unemployment was observed. Paternal but not maternal rejection was associated with excess risk of long-term unemployment, financial welfare assistance, and disability pension. Social support in adulthood did not moderate the associations, but associations between paternal rejection and long-term unemployment were stronger among women with university education than among women with less education.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study found childhood sexual abuse and paternal rejection as risk factors for economic marginalization among adult women. Future studies should investigate the reasons for the differential impact of paternal and maternal rejection and the excess risk among highly educated women.</p>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"159 ","pages":"107137"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142792815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"They are not victimless crimes…that's frustrating to hear\": Qualitative insights from prosecutors working on cases related to technology facilitated child sexual abuse material.","authors":"Jennifer E O'Brien, Gina Zwerling Kahn, Leanne Gast, Kimberly J Mitchell","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.107169","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.107169","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Child sexual abuse material (CSAM) are any videos or images of individuals under the age of 18 engaging in sexually explicit activities or positions. The incidence and scope of CSAM has increased since the COVID-19 pandemic; however, the prosecution of such crimes has not risen at the same rate.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study presents exploratory qualitative findings regarding prosecutors' challenges prosecuting CSAM cases from the perspectives of experienced CSAM prosecutors.</p><p><strong>Participants: </strong>A total of 24 prosecutors from 16 different states across the United States who affirmed working on prosecuting CSAM cases participated in a recorded, 1-h, semi-structured interview.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The semi-structured interview guide questions focused on participant's professional experiences prosecuting cases, including things that contributed and detracted from the successful prosecution of CSAM cases. Digital recordings of all interviews were transcribed verbatim and subsequently reviewed for accuracy by research team members. Interviews were coded independently by two members of the research team using a grounded theory approach. Methods to enhance the rigor of the research included regular debriefing, and the use of detailed case notes capturing nonverbal participant cues.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Qualitative analysis revealed three main challenges related to prosecution including CSAM awareness, resource allocation, and legal response. Subcategories within themes as well as regional differences are captured and shared.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Findings from the current study provide a context for understanding the role of prosecutors in criminal justice response to CSAM, but also point to directions for systemic improvements that would aid in prosecuting these crimes.</p>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"159 ","pages":"107169"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142781775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"They are your sub-group\": The experience of siblinghood in out-of-home placements as conveyed by adults who aged out of family group homes in Israel.","authors":"Afnan Attrash-Najjar, Osher Barnea, Noa Cohen, Moshe Dolev, Orna Taus, Carmit Katz","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.107168","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.107168","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Sibling bonds play a crucial role in the development, well-being, and resilience of individuals, particularly during challenging life circumstances. However, there is limited research on siblinghood within the context of out-of-home placements.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study aims to investigate the experiences of siblinghood among adults who aged out of family group homes in Israel. The primary objective is to amplify their voices and convey their key messages to professionals and academics working in the field.</p><p><strong>Participants and settings: </strong>The participants included 71 adults who aged out of family group homes, comprising 49 women and 22 men, mostly under the age of 30.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data was collected through an online survey, which was analyzed using descriptive statistics and qualitative analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The fundamental experience of being a sibling in a family group home was mainly positive. The sibling bond in their current life stage was also reported as positive, which was especially evident among participants who stayed in joint placements. The participants mostly preferred joint placements and highlighted the importance of professional support and guidance to nurture and sustain sibling relationships. However, most participants reported a lack of systemic support for sibling bonds.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The findings underscore the significance of recognizing sibling bonds as a valuable resource for children in out-of-home placements, which needs to be actualized by professionals and acknowledged by policymakers and researchers.</p>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"159 ","pages":"107168"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142774403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}