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Possible Meanings and Implications

Richard P. Barth, MSW, PhD

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2008;162(6):586-587. Published online June 2, 2008 (doi:10.1001/archpedi.162.6.586).

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During the past 20 years, placement with relatives has become the preferred and most common type of foster care for children who have relatives able to assume their care. The study by Rubin et al¹ is one of the best ever performed on the outcomes of kinship care. Many background factors that could otherwise explain the lower rate of problem behavior for children in kinship care vs children in nonkinship care were controlled for with uncommon statistical sophistication.

Although the study¹ does its best to carefully compare outcomes for children in kinship care with those not in kinship care, the authors' conclusion that there is a "protective effect" still needs to be made with care. This could as accurately be called a "protective relationship" because we really do not know whether the better behavior of the children in kinship care is a cause or a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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