What’s next for children diverted away from foster care and placed with relatives?

Last in a two-part look at kinship care from the Virginia Mercury.

There is an inherent conundrum built into child welfare. Social workers are trying to protect kids, but separating them from their parents is traumatizing, even if it’s for their own safety.

And reams of research shows that, if they have to be removed from their homes, children do best when they’re placed with family members.

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