Most existing literature on children's participation has focused on their involvement in service planning, delivery and evaluation rather than on children's views of their own world, starting from their interests and concerns. Few studies have considered the views and experiences of young children (under five years old). One of the barriers to this work has…
Adoption & Fostering Template
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Adoption & Fostering is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Child Welfare and Adoption, Political Systems and Governance, Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving.
| Publisher | SAGE |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Harvard) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Adoption & Fostering, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Child Welfare and Adoption Political Systems and Governance Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving Reproductive Health and Technologies Family and Disability Support Research |
| ISSN | 0308-5759 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 0.68 |
| h-index | 44 |
| i10-index | 401 |
| Total citations | 12,909 |
| Top institutions publishing here | University of East Anglia |
| Journal website | aaf.sagepub.com |
| You get | A submission-ready PDF and the editable LaTeX source — ready to submit. |
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Most-cited papers in Adoption & Fostering
Permanence has long been regarded as a key element in child placement planning and practice. While upholding its benefits, Robbie Gilligan argues that reliance on permanence as a guiding framework has gone too far. Instead he advocates a shift towards a resilience-based perspective which embraces the positive aspects of the permanence framework but more accurately…
Discussions about provision for children in the care of the state have continually raised the question, can the corporate state parent? Roger Bullock, Mark E Courtney, Roy Parker, Ian Sinclair and June Thoburn consider the question in the light of recent studies of separated children. It is argued that while the state does not need…
Ian Butler and Heather Payne present findings from a local study of the form and practice of statutory medical examinations for children looked after by the local authority. They report that only a quarter of children attend such medical examinations and that the quality of these medical contacts is questionable. The paper discusses these findings…
Since 1953, 150,000 Korean children have been adopted to 15 main host countries in the West. They constitute the largest international adoptee group worldwide. An adopted Korean movement has existed on an international level since the 1990s and is today trying to formulate an identity and community of its own beyond Western adoption ideology and…