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The Children of Looked After Children : Outcomes, Experiences and Ensuring Meaningful Support to Young Parents In and Leaving Care

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EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Based on groundbreaking original research, this book provides a comprehensive account of the issues surrounding pregnancy and parenthood for young people in and leaving care, considering the role of state as corporate parent and grandparent...

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主要作者: Roberts, Louise
格式: 电子 电子书
语言:英语
出版: Bristol : Policy Press, 2021.
丛编:Book collections on Project MUSE.
主题:
Children > Institutional care.
Teenage parents > Services for.
Enfants de meres adolescentes > Soins > Grande-Bretagne.
Parents adolescents > Services > Grande-Bretagne.
Children of teenage mothers > Care > Great Britain.
Teenage parents > Services for > Great Britain.
Children > Institutional care > Great Britain.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
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书本目录:
  • Front Cover
  • The Children of Looked after Children: Outcomes, Experiences and Ensuring Meaningful Support to Young Parents In and Leaving Care
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Table of contents
  • List of tables
  • About the author and contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction
  • My interest in and commitment to the research
  • Overview of the study
  • Aims of the book
  • Recurring themes and questions
  • A note on language
  • Structure and overview
  • 2 Early pregnancy risk and missed opportunities to plan for parenthood
  • Introduction and background
  • Efforts to reduce teenage pregnancy
  • Methods and results
  • SHRN Health and Wellbeing Survey
  • Results
  • Findings from the Voices study
  • The system has it covered: professional confidence in available support and expertise
  • Threats to the effectiveness of the system
  • Limited resources
  • 'Responsible' corporate parenting
  • Individual choice and control
  • Discussion: heightened vulnerability and continuing risk of unplanned pregnancy
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • 3 Outcomes for parents in and leaving care: parenting 'success' and corporate parenting failure
  • Introduction and background
  • Methods and results
  • The Wales Adoption Study
  • Results
  • Survey of local authority leaving-care teams
  • Results
  • Discussion: resilience in spite of adversity and problematic corporate parent relationships
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • 4 Professional perspectives: assessing parenting potential and managing dual responsibilities
  • Introduction and background
  • Findings from the Voices study
  • The foundations for parenting success
  • Procedures, planning and expectations of practice
  • Disadvantage and dual responsibilities
  • Discussion: systemic disadvantage and limited corporate parenting protection
  • Conclusion
  • 5 The experiences of parents: hopes, anxieties and reflections
  • Introduction and background
  • Findings from the Voices study
  • Becoming a parent
  • Initial shock and early commitment
  • Wanting to be better and do better
  • Fear and mistrust of social workers
  • Reflecting on parenthood
  • Struggle and 'success'
  • Continuing struggle and perceived failure
  • Discussion: enduring stigma, and the residual threat of social work intervention
  • Conclusion
  • 6 Responding to diverse needs: support availability, sustainability and acceptability
  • Introduction and background
  • Findings from the Voices study
  • The potential for multiple and multifaceted support needs
  • Parental determination, engagement and responsibility
  • Informal support: having someone by your side
  • Formal support: availability, acceptability and adequacy
  • Experiences of support: personalised options, 'voluntary' engagement and perceived benefit
  • Discussion: diverse needs, passive corporate parents and absent corporate grandparents
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements

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