This study examined associated factors of placement into formal substitute care following a
maltreatment investigation and the relationship between children's entry into formal
substitute care and changes in caregivers. The sample from the National Survey of Child
and Adolescent Well-Being included 3038 children who lived with biological parents or were
placed in informal kinship and non-kinship care at the close of investigation. Placement in
informal kinship and non-kinship care following a maltreatment investigation, younger age of …