Barth Richard P, Green Rebecca, Webb Mary Bruce, Wall Ariana, Gibbons Claire, Craig Carlton
School of Social Work, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Child Welfare. 2008;87(3):5-39.
A national probability sample of children who have been in child welfare supervised placements for about one year identifies the characteristics (e.g., age, training, education, health, and home) of the foster parents, kinship foster parents, and group home caregivers. Caregiving respondents provided information about their backgrounds. Interviewers also used the HOME-SF to assess the caregiving environments of foster care and kinship care. Comparisons are made to other nationally representative samples, including the U.S. Census and the National Survey of America's Families. Kinship care, foster care, and group care providers are significantly different from each other--and the general population--in age and education. Findings on the numbers of children cared for, understimulating environments, use of punitive punishment, and low educational levels of caregivers generate suggestions for practice with foster families.
一项针对在儿童福利机构监管下安置了约一年的儿童的全国概率样本研究，确定了寄养父母、亲属寄养父母和集体家庭照料者的特征（如年龄、培训、教育、健康和家庭情况）。参与照料的受访者提供了他们背景的相关信息。访谈者还使用家庭观察量表简版（HOME-SF）来评估寄养照料和亲属照料的照料环境。研究将这些数据与其他具有全国代表性的样本进行比较，包括美国人口普查和全国家庭调查。亲属照料提供者、寄养照料提供者和集体照料提供者在年龄和教育程度上彼此之间以及与普通人群都存在显著差异。关于照料儿童数量、刺激不足的环境、惩罚性惩罚的使用以及照料者教育水平较低的研究结果，为与寄养家庭合作提供了实践建议。
