Among Children Placed in Kinship Care
Exit to Reunification, Adoption, or Foster Care
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11215091 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tyrone C Cheng (0000-0002-2335-1677, University of Alabama, corresponding author), Celia C Lo (0000-0002-5785-6622, Behavioral Research Manager, Peraton, Seaside, California, USA) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 768-780 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Social Service Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0148-8376 • E-ISSN: 1540-7314 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01488376.2022.2149940 |
| OpenAlex | W4309928728 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 46 |
This study examined factors related to children’s exit from kinship care to reunification, adoption, and foster care. Data describing 498 parents of children placed in kinship care were extracted from a national survey. Results showed that the likelihood of reunification was increased with other maltreatment type, parent receipt of mental health services, number of alcoholic drinks consumed, having other health insurance, and family income; such likelihood was reduced by parent nonmedical use of medication, receipt of health-care services, and education. Number of alcoholic drinks consumed, number of IPV episodes reported, receipt of domestic-violence services, caseworker turnover, and family income increased the likelihood of exit to adoption; receipt of legal services, having other health insurance, parent of other minority race/ethnicity, and being employed diminished such likelihood. Likelihood of exit to foster care was reduced by other maltreatment, nonmedical use of medication, mental health, receipt of employment services, receipt of health-care services, having other health insurance, parent–caseworker shared race/ethnicity, Hispanic parent, other non-Black minority parent, and education. Such likelihood was increased with physical maltreatment, receipt of financial assistance, difficulty in accessing services, perceived caseworker engagement, and caseworker turnover. Implications and future research for facilitating unification, case plans, and working alliance are discussed
Business · Ethnic group · Family medicine · Foster care · Health care · Kinship · Kinship care · Medicaid · Mental health · Political science · Psychiatry · Receipt · Child Abuse and Trauma · Child Welfare and Adoption · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology
Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis
Linear Probability, Logit, and Probit Models
Who disrupts from placement in foster and kinship care?
A 12-Item Short-Form Health Survey
Causal Analysis with Panel Data
Understanding the Working Alliance Between Persons with Substance Abuse Problems and Strengths-Based Case Managers
Integrating Substance Abuse Treatment and Child Welfare Services
A tangled web
Mothering after child removal
Safety and Stability for Foster Children
Systematic Review of Kinship Care Effects on Safety, Permanency, and Well-Being Outcomes
Impact of intensive case management on child welfare system involvement for substance-dependent parenting women on public assistance
Kinship care
Targeting services to reduce need after a child abuse investigation
Managing moods and parenting
Explaining the disparity in placement instability among African-American and white children in child welfare
Factors affecting placement of children in kinship and nonkinship foster care
With their children placed in kinship care, did parents get the services they needed
Receipt of substance-use services by caregivers involved in the child-welfare system
Racial disparities in access to needed child welfare services and worker–client engagement
Kin and non-kin foster care—findings from a National Survey
After Parental Rights are Terminated
Mental health services receipt among caregivers in the child welfare system
The gift of kinship foster care
Permanency outcomes of children in kinship and non-kinship foster care
Understanding worker–parent engagement in child protection casework
The Effect of Initial Placement into Kinship Foster Care on Reunification from Foster Care
Foster Family Characteristics, Kinship, and Permanence
Factors Associated with the Reunification of Foster Children with Their Families
Under What Conditions Does Caseworker-Caregiver Racial/Ethnic Similarity Matter for Housing Service Provision? An Application of Representative Bureaucracy Theory
Kinship Care for African American Children
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |