Ms Judith Lind

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Judith Lind's research broadly explores the relationship between children, the family, and the welfare state in both policy and practice. More specifically, her research interests concern the assessment of parenting capacity of individuals who aspire to become parents or carers but are not yet parents. She has investigated parenting capacity assessments in the context of interwar sterilisation laws, adoption home studies, child welfare assessments in assisted reproduction and the assessment of prospective foster carers.

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Publications

Lind, J., Lindgren, C. & Sköld, J. (2025). Is There an Unrecognized Potential Pool of Foster Carers?. Child & Family Social Work. https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.13261

Lind, J., Lindgren, C. & Sköld, J. (2025). What prevents people from becoming foster carers?. European Journal of Social Work 28(3), 603–617.

Lind, J. (2021). Assessment of parental potential: socio-economic risk factors and children’s well-being. In: Castrén, A-M., Cesnuityte, V., Crespi, I., Gauthier, J-A., Gouveia, R., Martin, C., Moreno Minguez, A. & Suwada, K. (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Family Sociology in Europe: (pp. 415-433). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan

Lind, J. (2020). Child welfare assessments and the regulation of access to publicly funded fertility treatment. Reproductive BioMedicine Online, 10, 19-27

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