Kinship Care: Suggestions for Future Research.

The article discusses the suggestions for future research related to kinship care in the U.S. The number of children in foster home placements is increasing. However, not much research has been done in the field. Kinship care offers several potential benefits to children who must be placed. Placement with strangers in an unknown environment is avoided. Kinship care, however, has also raised several concerns. It is also thought that kinship providers are inadequately screened by public child welfare agencies and that the services provided to kinship families are often fewer compared to those provided by nonrelative foster families. From a legal perspective, it is clear that the governmental role and responsibility varies for these different groups of children.