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Inside Kinship Care
Language: en
Pages: 268
Authors: David Pitcher
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-21 - Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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Kinship care – the care of children by grandparents, other relatives or friends – is a major part of foster care, yet there are distinct issues that arise i
Childhood in Kinship Care
Language: en
Pages: 124
Authors: Jeanette Skoglund
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-03-21 - Publisher: Routledge

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Kinship foster care involves placing children who cannot live at home in foster care with other members of their family or close network. This book sheds light
Tradition and Policy Perspectives in Kinship Care
Language: en
Pages: 287
Authors: Rowena G. Wilson
Categories: Family & Relationships
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-03 - Publisher: Routledge

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Kinship care is part tradition and part social welfare policy. Tradition and Policy Perspectives in Kinship Care examines the balance of the two perspectives an
Advocating for Children in Foster and Kinship Care
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: Mitchell Rosenwald
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-03-11 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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This book is the first to provide strategies for effective advocacy and placement within the foster care and kinship care systems. It also takes a rare look at
Kinship Care
Language: en
Pages: 308
Authors: Rob Geen
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: The Urban Insitute

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Since the early 1980s, states child welfare agencies' use of relatives as foster parents has grown rapidly, yet little information is available on this practice