FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Siblings

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

Objective: This study examines how siblings from families with two parents affected by mental illness negotiate their roles within the sibling group and which systemic-dynamic processes shape these negotiations. Background: While numerous studies have explored the experiences of children of parents with mental illness, little research has investigated how these experiences shape sibling relationships. This study add…

Reference · Wikidata

Outspoken Voices Podcast episode

Book · DOAB

This book sheds light on the foster carers’ own children and their perspectives on growing up with foster siblings. The complex and multifaceted relationship between foster children and biological children in foster families creates many paradoxes and dilemmas. I discuss how challenges in foster care placement may impact on children in foster families, and the moral responsibility of the social workers for the well-…

Full text · Open Library

Image · DPLA

Incarceration is an issue that affects thousands of families on a yearly basis. To date, the majority of studies examining this loss have observed the impact of incarceration on children and parents; primarily how imprisonment affects child attachment to mothers and fathers (Brown et. al., 2000). Most often overlooked within these studies have been the siblings of brothers and sisters who have been adjudicated (Brow…