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Who Is Willing to Foster Children With Disabilities?

Children with disabilities represent a significant and increasing proportion of children in foster care. In a national sample of 304 foster mothers we identified two groups of mothers, one willing to foster children with any type of disability except HIV/AIDS (51%) (Unconditional mothers), and a second group who were more selective (49%) (Selective mothers). Unconditional mothers fostered longer, fostered more children, and had more foster children in their homes.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ETSU/oai:dc.etsu.edu:etsu-works-8891
Date24 December 2013
CreatorsOrme, John G., Cherry, Donna J., Krcek, Taylor E.
PublisherDigital Commons @ East Tennessee State University
Source SetsEast Tennessee State University
Detected LanguageEnglish
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SourceETSU Faculty Works

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