While same-sex marriage has been legal in the United States since 2015, the laws pertaining to LGBTQ+ foster families have been slow to catch up. Currently, only eight states have laws protecting LGBTQ+ foster families from discrimination. Conversely, . . .

Trends from across the nation are that there is a shortage of foster parents for the number of children in foster care. In a rural northern California county, it is typically a struggle to find a place for children removed from their homes to be place . . .

Objective: The purpose of this exploratory study is to examine the concept of compassion fatigue in foster parents. In the past this concept has been applied to helping professionals such as social workers and therapists; however, little attention has . . .

The current study seeks to address foster parents' knowledge of a concept known as Emotional Intelligence, which is a person's ability to label and understand one's own emotions, as well as the emotions of others. This study also seeks to understand f . . .