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Outcomes for Children in Kinship Care
Findings from studies or assessments of children living in kinship care.
Evaluating the Quality of Kinship Foster Care: Literature Review
Children & Family Research Center (1999)
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Updates a 1996 literature review conducted to aid in the development of measures to assess kinship care quality.
Kinship Care: Finding Families for Kids in Need
Krinksy
Juvenile and Family Justice Today, 14(2), 2005
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Reviews research results that indicate children in kinship care experience greater success and stability than youth placed with strangers and discusses the need for more efforts to involve extended family members as foster care providers or guardians.
Well-Being Outcomes of Children in Kinship Care: Literature Review (PDF - 134 KB)
Children & Family Research Center (2003)
Reviews several studies on outcomes for children in kinship care that focus on school performance, behavioral problems, mental health, and/or later adult functioning.
Caregiving Environments of Kinship Care: Literature Review (PDF - 155 KB)
Children & Family Research Center (2003)
Examines research on kinship care, paying special attention to comparisons of kinship versus nonkinship environments in terms of caregiver characteristics, receipt of services, placement stability, and achievement of permanency.
Children in Kinship Care (PDF - 96 KB)
The Urban Institute (2002)
Facts about children in kinship care, including type of care and how the children are doing from the 2002 National Survey of America's Families.
The Long-Term Emotional and Physical Well-Being of Women Who Have Lived in Kinship Care
Carpenter & Clyman
Children and Youth Services Review, 26(7), 2004
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Examines the relationship between childhood kinship care and adult physical and emotional well-being, using data from 8,760 women in the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth.
Permanency in Kinship Care: An Exploration of Disruption Rates and Factors Associated With Placement Disruption
Terling-Watt
Children and Youth Services Review, 23(2), 2001
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Study of disruption rates for potentially permanent kinship placements and barriers to achieving permanency with relatives.