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  • Title: Issues of shared parenting of LGBTQ children and youth in foster care: preparing foster parents for new roles.
    Author: Craig-Oldsen H, Craig JA, Morton T.
    Journal: Child Welfare; 2006; 85(2):267-80. PubMed ID: 16846115.
    Abstract:
    Foster parents have increasingly assumed new and challenging roles during the past decade. Meeting the developmental, attachment, and grieving needs of children and youth in out of home care is challenging by itself, but can become even more difficult with the issues that arise when the child is lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning (LGBTQ). Preservice and in-service foster parent training programs can strengthen shared parenting skills by focusing on the universal critical issues of safety, well being, and permanence for children and youth in foster care. This article will focus on these skill areas: (1) sharing parenting to promote healthy growth and development of LGBTQ youth in foster care, (2) threats to safety of LGBTQ youth in foster care, and (3) general challenges and strategies for preparing foster parents of LGBTQ youth to build support systems.
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