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Kinship Care for Children: Basic Facts (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date May 28, 1998
Report Number 98-502
Report Type Report
Authors Karen Spar, Education and Public Welfare Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

This fact sheet provides basic information on kinship care, focusing on kinship foster care, including a description of federal policy in this area. Kinship care is a generic term that is broadly used to include formal and informal arrangements where children are living with and being raised by relatives, or even close family friends, who are not their parents.