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Article: Children and Youth Services Review: 'Does the child welfare system serve the neediest kinship care families?'.(Brief article)
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- Adoption & Fostering
- Article date:
- December 22, 2006
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Children and Youth Services Review 28:10, October 2006, pp 1213-228, USA
Little is known about how kinship care arrangements within the child welfare system compare to kinship placements outside the child welfare system. The purpose of this study is to better understand the characteristics that influence whether a child is placed in public or private kinship care. Using national level data, we employ bivariate analysis and logistic regression to evaluate how child, caregiver and state characteristics are related to the placement of children in public versus private kinship care. Our findings suggest that the child welfare system indeed serves the most vulnerable ...