I have learned that VA does not offer kinship care...so no benefits from their end anyway. It's apparently like a full adoption. Any stories would be great!
The CW may be thinking it doesn't matter because you're "kin" to Kiki; perhaps if you had a large family of biological kids they could place one kinship foster ...
Here it depends on the relationship between the child and the relative, but generally keeping siblings together wins out if there is a relative who can taken ...
Sep 8, 2014 ... An old friend of mine asked me to do fictive kinship care for her daughter and adopt her. All of her family including the grandmother has failed home studies ...
May 5, 2014 ... When it comes to foster care, confidentiality isn't just a moral imperative. It's a legal one, too. Every child in foster care has undergone the ...
Contact with the parents about the case outside of approved channels can easily open you up to perceptions that you are attempting to influence the mother, ...
In my state appropriate relatives are always given placement first. A child could be with a foster family from birth until 18 months, but if an appropriate ...