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Kinship Care also on the rise

May 5, 2008 at 11:56 am | In Articles, Media | Leave a Comment
Tags: Kinship Care

Kinship care is when a child is placed under the care of a family member, often a grandparent, Aunt or Uncle, and as The Age has reported today, its on the rise.

Kinship care is often seen as preferable to a foster care placement outside the child’s family where it is appropriate and available. But the telling part of this article is the quote from Cathy Humphreys, a Melbourne University professor in child and family welfare, “It [Kinship Care] can be very good or it can be very difficult, so each situation has to be looked at differently. It’s not one size fits all.”