Background Every year a large number of children around the world are removed from their
homes because they are maltreated. Child welfare agencies are responsible for placing …

Nearly 750 000 children are currently in foster care in the United States. Recent trends in
foster care include reliance on extended family members to care for children in kinship care …

Although a broad range of programmes for prevention of child maltreatment exist, the
effectiveness of most of the programmes is unknown. Two specific home-visiting …

Over the last decade or longer, the number of children in kinship care has increased
dramatically. There is evidence that kinship foster families have fewer resources and receive …

PURPOSE: To ascertain the prevalence of psychiatric symptoms and substance use
disorders among adolescents with a lifetime history of foster care placement, using data from …

Objective. Although prior population-based studies have found that children in foster care
use more mental health services than their Medicaid peers, less is known about how …

This article uses national data to look at the differences between children in kinship and non-
kinship care arrangements. Three groups are compared: children in non-kin foster care …

Grandparents play varied roles in their grandchildren's lives. Prior work has focused mostly
on historical trends in and implications of grandparent coresidence and has not considered …

We examine why some foster families continue to foster whereas others do not. Reasons for
quitting include lack of agency support, poor communication with caseworkers, lack of say in …

Objective: The purpose of the present study was to investigate predictors of psychological
distress in grandmother kinship care providers. More specifically, it was hypothesized that …