Kinship Care

Kinship care is the full-time care of a child by a relative or another member of the extended family. This type of arrangement is the most common form of out of home care throughout the world and is typically arranged without formal legal proceedings. In many developing countries, it is essentially the only form of alternative family care available on a significant scale.

 

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Mick Pease, Philip Williams,

This book takes readers on a journey that spans three decades and five continents, describing the work of SFAC to keep children in their families and communities or to find safe alternatives where this is not possible.

Chelsie Yount-André - International African Institute,

Scholarship on transnational families has regularly examined remittances that adults abroad send to children in their country of origin. This article illuminates another permutation of these processes: family members in Senegal who establish relations with and through children in France through gifts and money.

Leith Harding, Kate Murray, Jane Shakespeare-Finch, Ron Frey - Children and Youth Services Review,

The current study examined placement, carer, and child characteristics related to perceived foster parent stress in a sample of 158 foster and kin carers in Queensland, Australia.

Catherine Douillet - Journal of European Studies,

According to some estimates, a third of the adult Moldovan population is working abroad, often ‘leaving behind’ children in the care of relatives, neighbours or in orphanages. This paper from the Journal of European Studies investigates how such high migration rates affect Moldovan family life and personal definitions of identity and success.

Ines Zuchowski, Susan Gair, Debbie Henderson, Ros Thorpe - The British Journal of Social Work,

The qualitative Australian study reported here explored how contact between grandparents and their grandchildren could be optimised after child-safety concerns.

Qianyu Li, Wenxin Zhang, ingxin Zhao - Journal of Health Psychology,

This study examined the effects of grandparent–grandchild cohesion on the cross-lagged associations between depression and cultural beliefs about adversity in a sample of 625 rural left-behind children in China.

Scott C. Leon & Daniel A. Dickson - Family Relations,

The objective of this study was to identify different kin and fictive kin network support profiles available to children in foster care and examine whether these profiles predict behavioral outcomes.

Ko Ling Chan, Mengtong Chen, Kin Ming Camilla Lo, Qiqi Chen, Susan J. Kelley, Patrick Ip - Research on Social Work Practice,

The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of intervention programs that aim to enhance the well-being of grandparent caregivers and the developmental outcomes of grandchildren and identify useful program components.

Ko Ling Chan, Mengtong Chen, Kin Ming Camilla Lo, Qiqi Chen, Susan J. Kelley, Patrick Ip - Research on Social Work Practice,

The research objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of intervention programs that aim to enhance the well-being of grandparent caregivers and the developmental outcomes of grandchildren and identify useful program components.

Professor Dame Carolyn Hamilton, Kara Apland, Elizabeth Yarrow & Dr Anna Mackin, with support provided by Soksan Tem & Phally Keo, on behalf of Coram International - UNICEF Cambodia,

The objective of this evaluation was to provide evidence that can help strengthen performance and accountability with UNICEF’s work with the Royal Government of Cambodia and the myriad other authorities and organizations involved in child protection.