Catalogue by titles / Relatives Raising Children: An Overview of Kinship Care
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| ISS/IRC Code | TOOL-ADOPT US-025 |
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| Title | Relatives Raising Children: An Overview of Kinship Care |
| Author | CRUMBLEY Joseph (Ed.) |
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| General information | |
| Date published/issue | 00-00-1997 |
| Date received | 00-00-0000 |
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| Editor | |
| Publisher | Child Welfare League of America, Inc., 440 First Street, NW, Third Floor, Washington, DC 20001-2085, |
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| Page | 124 |
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| ISBN | 0 87868 684 3 |
| Type of material | Book |
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| Document description | |
| Country concerned |
UNITED STATES |
| Index |
Foster-care Substitute-family Kinship-care Identity-origin Child-interest |
| Free text | Review of the situation of relatives formally looking after children when there is a disruption of their own family life - the difficulties and challenges encountered by care givers, the advantages for the children, the feelings of parents whose children have been placed with relatives. Chapter three: assessment and intervention (by professionals). Other chapters deal with issues of incarceration of parents for substance abuse, parents who have died of HIV-AIDS, legal relationship with carers and legal adoption by relatives. |
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| Degree of interest | Valuable |
| Work area | Social work --> |
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