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Article: Informal and formal kinship care populations: A study in contrasts
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- Child Welfare
- Article date:
- September 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright Transaction Inc. Sep/Oct 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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This article contrasts a group of informal kinship care providers with two "formal" kinship care groups, examining similarities and differences in child and caregiver demographics and service needs. One program's response to the needs of informal kinship care providers is presented.
Kinship care as a child welfare service has had a cyclical existence. For many years a preference was shown for placing children in orphanages, a practice that was succeeded by the use of family foster homes. In 1978, the passage of the Indian Child Welfare Act gave the concept of kinship placement new preference. Further legal foundation was laid in 1979 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Miller v. Youakim ...