Placement in foster care is typically classified as kinship or non-kinship care. The relevant literature defines the concept of “kinship” as, the care of children by relatives or, in some jurisdictions, close family friends (Foster Care Statistics, 2015). On the other hand, non-kinship care is the care of children by strangers. Non-kinship care still is the most popular form of placement. The premise of non-kinship care, was typically based on the distrust of family members as a whole. Social workers conceptualized the removal of a child from a family, based on the analogy, if there is one bad apple in the family, the full barrel (family) should be discarded (Testa, 2013; Peters, 2005).
Although placement in kinship care is the first option
Although placement in kinship care is the first option