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Family Functioning, Parenting Style, and Child Behavior in Kin Foster Care
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posted on 2013-12-03, 00:00 authored by Reginald C. Richardson, James P. GleesonFace-to-face interviews with 120 predominantly African American kin caregivers of children in the child welfare
system revealed significant associations between family functioning and child behavior problems. Caregivers who
reported healthier family functioning tended to report lower levels of behavior problems by the children in their care.
Healthier family functioning related to roles and affective involvement were associated with lower levels of child
behavior problems, but, surprisingly, less healthy family functioning related to behavior control was also associated
with lower levels of child behavior problems. Caregiver ratings of their parenting styles were related to family functioning
but not to their ratings of the child’s behavioral functioning. Results of this study suggest several implications
for child welfare practice and future research.
Funding
This research was supported by a fellowship from the Administration on Children, Youth and Families (90CA1673) and grant #013776 from the Children and Family Research Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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This is a copy of an article published in the Families in Society © 2012 Alliance for Children and Families.Publisher
Alliance for Children and FamiliesLanguage
- en_US
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1044-3894Issue date
2012-04-01Usage metrics
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