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- Title
Social Supports in the Lives of Child Welfare-Involved Families.
- Authors
Lalayants, Marina; Baier, Meaghan; Benedict, Anne; Mera, Diana
- Abstract
Faced with multiple challenges, child welfare-involved parents often have limited support sources and interactions with social linkages. Previous research conceptualized and examined social support in relation to maltreatment mainly focusing on its quantitative aspects, which included network size and interaction regularity with its members. On the contrary, this qualitative study examined the role of and the most frequent types of formal and informal supports identified by the interviewed sample of child welfareinvolved parents. The sources and types of support are discussed and exemplified by respondents' descriptive quotes.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CHILD welfare; SOCIAL support; FAMILIES; PEERS; SUPPORT groups
- Publication
Child Welfare, 2014, Vol 93, Issue 6, p93
- ISSN
0009-4021
- Publication type
Article