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Jackson Foster LJ, Beadnell B, Pecora PJ. Intergenerational pathways leading to foster care placement of foster care alumni's children. Child Fam Soc Work. 2015;20(1):72-82doi: 10.1111/cfs.12057.
Jackson Foster, L. J., Beadnell, B., & Pecora, P. J. (2015). Intergenerational pathways leading to foster care placement of foster care alumni's children. Child & family social work, 20(1), 72-82. https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12057
Jackson Foster, Lovie J, et al. "Intergenerational pathways leading to foster care placement of foster care alumni's children." Child & family social work vol. 20,1 (2015): 72-82. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12057
Jackson Foster LJ, Beadnell B, Pecora PJ. Intergenerational pathways leading to foster care placement of foster care alumni's children. Child Fam Soc Work. 2015 Feb;20(1):72-82. doi: 10.1111/cfs.12057. PMID: 25729315; PMCID: PMC4340584.
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Child Fam Soc Work. 2015 Feb;20(1):72-82. doi: 10.1111/cfs.12057.

Intergenerational pathways leading to foster care placement of foster care alumni's children.

Child & family social work

Lovie J Jackson Foster, Blair Beadnell, Peter J Pecora

Affiliations

  1. Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  2. Research Scientist in the School of Social Work at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington.
  3. Managing Director of Research Services at Casey Family Programs and Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington.

PMID: 25729315 PMCID: PMC4340584 DOI: 10.1111/cfs.12057

Abstract

This study examined a path model that postulated intergenerational relationships between biological parent psychosocial functioning and foster care alumni mental health, economic status, and social support; and from these to the likelihood of children of foster care alumni being placed in foster care. The sample included 742 adults who spent time in foster care as children with a private foster care agency and who reported having at least one biological child. A full pathway was found between poorer father's functioning to greater alumni depression, which was in turn associated with negative social support, and then a greater likelihood of child out of home placement. Other parent to alumni paths were that poorer father functioning was associated with alumni anxiety and PTSD, and poorer mother's mental health was associated with PTSD; however, anxiety and PTSD were not implicated as precursors of foster care placement of the child. Findings support the need for increased practice and policy support to address the mental health needs of parents of children in or at risk of foster care, as well as the children themselves, as family history may have a lasting influence on quality of life, even when children are raised apart from biological parents.

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