Citation

Leslie LK, Landsverk J, Horton MB, Ganger W, Newton RR. Child Welf. 2000; 79(3): 315-334.

Affiliation

Children's Hospital, San Diego, CA, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, Child Welfare League of America)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10813086

PMCID

PMC1550706

Abstract

Increasingly, children in need of out-of-home care are being placed in kinship care, yet few studies have followed their placement histories longitudinally to determine if these children constitute a homogeneous group or heterogeneous subgroups. This study of 484 children in kinship care in San Diego County, California, indicates that children in kinship care have markedly different sociodemographic and maltreatment histories, as well as heterogeneous placement experiences.

Language: en