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Kinship Foster Care$
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Rebecca L. Hegar and Maria Scannapieco

Print publication date: 1999

Print ISBN-13: 9780195109405

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2009

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195109405.001.0001

Kinship Foster Care

The New Child Placement Paradigm

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(p. 225 ) CHAPTER 14 Kinship Foster Care
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Kinship Foster Care
Author(s):

Rebecca L. Hegar

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195109405.003.0014

This chapter discusses the shifts in the dominant paradigm for child placement practice, with emphasis on the rise of kinship foster care. It analyzes the unintended and unforeseen consequences of policy and practice under the newest child placement paradigm. The final sections consider the state of child placement practice in the next century.

Keywords:   kinship care, foster care, child placement, paradigm shift

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