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 …

Children and adolescents involved with child welfare, especially those who are removed
from their family of origin and placed in out-of-home care, often present with complex and …

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 …

Objective. Most research on health problems of children in foster care has been cross-
sectional, resulting in overselection of children who have been in care long-term and …

Objectives: To describe the health status and to illustrate the usefulness of an enhanced
primary care model for children in foster care. Design: Cross-sectional analysis of a clinical …

Objective: Although custodial grandchildren are believed to be at greater risk of emotional
and behavioral problems than children in general, scant research has examined this …

The placement of children in need of out-of-home care with relatives (ie, kinship care) has
been an increasing trend. The study summarized in this paper represents the first …

Child maltreatment professionals from all disciplines struggle to find better ways of
understanding and treating the families and children affected by maltreatment. Since the mid …

Kinship care—the placement of children with relatives—is increasingly supplementing the
more traditional forms of family foster care. This article, based on a comprehensive study of …