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    Grandparent kinship care in Australia

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    Authors
    Horner, Barbara
    Downie, Jill
    Hay, David
    Wichmann, Helen
    Date
    2007
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Horner, Barbara and Downie, Jill and Hay, David and Wichmann, Helen. 2007. Grandparent kinship care in Australia. Geriaction 25 (1): pp. 5-12.
    Source Title
    Geriaction
    ISBN
    1032 - 4410
    Faculty
    Faculty of Health Sciences
    Centre for Research on Ageing
    School
    Centre for Research into Ageing
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11856
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Grandparents taking on the full - time parental care of their grandchildren is an increasingly prevalent family structure in Australia and the fastest growing form of out-of-home placement of children in contact with our public welfare system. Unfortunately, Australia lags behind the rest of the world in its characterisation of this parenting style.The limited accurate information available to community and national and state government agencies and policy makers effectively means that they do not have evidence on which to build a policy or service framework to support these families.The aim of this paper is to raise awareness of the needs of grandparents who parent their grandchildren in the Australian aged care community, with a view to a funded large scale research project in the near future.

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