TY - JOUR
T1 - Kinship care and issues in permanency planning
AU - Monahan, Deborah J.
AU - Kietzmann, Katie
AU - Smith, Carrie Jefferson
AU - Greene, Vernon L
N1 - Funding Information:
This exploratory study of kinship caregivers has been funded by the Children’s Bureau. The primary KinNET institutional collaborators were Generations United (intervention design and implementation), the Brookdale Foundation (support group model), and Syracuse University (evaluation design and implementation). The study sample was drawn from 16 national intervention sites that are funded by the Children’s Bureau.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2017/10/2
Y1 - 2017/10/2
N2 - Kinship caregivers are a child-care resource for families experiencing stress or temporary parenting due to illness, incarceration, or death of a parent. This article examines whether and how felt caregiver burden influences the reported propensity of caregivers to want to adopt the children in their care. Kinship caregivers who were enrolled in KinNET completed the survey (N = 102) and the data were entered anonymously into SPSS for analysis. Their mean age was 57.51 years (SD = 10.13), 95% were female (SD =.19), and two-thirds were non-white (SD =.73). Using “likelihood of adopting the child in my care,” as the outcome variable in the linear regression analysis, caregiver’s age, monthly income, and total hours employed were significant predictors. Total pressures, family service needs, and physical problems scales were not statistically significant predictors. The adjusted R square was.439 and significant (.006). Understanding the factors that are predictive of adopting children in kinship care will help programs target services more effectively. Helping kinship caregivers and the children in their care is also important in promoting their health and social well-being.
AB - Kinship caregivers are a child-care resource for families experiencing stress or temporary parenting due to illness, incarceration, or death of a parent. This article examines whether and how felt caregiver burden influences the reported propensity of caregivers to want to adopt the children in their care. Kinship caregivers who were enrolled in KinNET completed the survey (N = 102) and the data were entered anonymously into SPSS for analysis. Their mean age was 57.51 years (SD = 10.13), 95% were female (SD =.19), and two-thirds were non-white (SD =.73). Using “likelihood of adopting the child in my care,” as the outcome variable in the linear regression analysis, caregiver’s age, monthly income, and total hours employed were significant predictors. Total pressures, family service needs, and physical problems scales were not statistically significant predictors. The adjusted R square was.439 and significant (.006). Understanding the factors that are predictive of adopting children in kinship care will help programs target services more effectively. Helping kinship caregivers and the children in their care is also important in promoting their health and social well-being.
KW - Caregivers
KW - kinship
KW - permanency
KW - planning
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U2 - 10.1080/15350770.2017.1368324
DO - 10.1080/15350770.2017.1368324
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85030707819
SN - 1535-0770
VL - 15
SP - 315
EP - 325
JO - Journal of Intergenerational Relationships
JF - Journal of Intergenerational Relationships
IS - 4
ER -