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, 2022 A relative caregiver (commonly called a kinship caregiver) is rearing about 10 percent of children in the United States. While relative caregivers are typically a child’s grandparent, they can also be other relatives (e.g., aunts, uncles, siblings, cousins) or fictive kin (e.g., godparents). The most prevalent care arrangement is classified as informal,
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Doing One’s Best: Becoming a Kinship Caregiver
Grounded Theory Review: An International Journal, 2020 A kinship family is one where a family member, other than a biological parent, is primarily responsible for the child. In-depth, unstructured interviews with kinship caregivers and children from 15 kinship families were conducted to gain a thorough ...
Kara Vander Linden +1 more
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Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2014 This Campbell systematic review examines whether kinship care is more effective than foster care in ensuring the safety, permanency and wellbeing of children removed from their home for maltreatment.
Marc Winokur +2 more
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Social Sciences, 2023 In recent years, social network analysis has had its own distinctive theoretical and methodological underpinnings. This article proposes a novel method for the application of a fused mixed-methods approach and social network analyses that incorporates ...
Emi Patmisari +2 more
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SocietiesThis study reflects the evidence-building journey for the Colorado Kinnected kinship navigator program. Colorado Kinnected expands the scope of services, resources, and supports offered to kinship families through an innovative approach that enhances an ...
Greg Forehand +4 more
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Putting Families First: How the Opioid Epidemic is Affecting Children and Families, and the Child Welfare Policy Options to Address It [PDF]
, 2019 : Opioids and Child Welfare Across the country, placements in foster care are rising. In 2016, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported that 273,539 children in the U.S. entered foster care.
American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Foster Care, Adoption, and Kinship Care +3 more
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Societies, 2023 (1) Background: This study explored changes before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of developmental outcomes among kinship foster care children in the Republic of Korea: and gender differences in the changes; (2) Methods: The study analyzed the
Hyunah Kang, Ick-Joong Chung, Sehyeon Oh
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Stepping Up for Kids: What Government and Communities Should Do to Support Kinship Families [PDF]
, 2012 Provides an overview of kinship care; its positive impact on children, state agencies, and society; and policy recommendations to better support kinship care families, including boosting Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and foster care ...
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Modelling Social Care Provision in An Agent-Based Framework with Kinship Networks [PDF]
, 2019 Current demographic trends in the UK include a fast-growing elderly population and dropping birth rates, and demand for social care amongst the aged is rising. The UK depends on informal social care -- family members or friends providing care -- for some
Gostoli, Umberto, Silverman, Eric
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Kinship Foster Care: A Relatively Permanent Solution [PDF]
, 1993 Kinship foster care is intended to provide substantially the same standard of care as children receive in placement with unrelated foster parents. In practice, however, the two differ enormously in New York City.
Zwas, Marla Gottlieb
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