title: Regulating foster care services: the Kenyan situation.
abstract: This paper compares the traditional rural clan and extended family communal form of foster care with the more recent state-sponsored nuclear foster/adoptive care prevalent in urban areas and based in a western-style constitution and child care legislation. This author wonders whether the state's philosophy is realistic in light of the pervasive and manifold social problems in Kenya today.
authors.affiliation: Child Welfare Society of Kenya, Nairobi, East Africa.
authors.forename: K J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Umbima
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000517:prevention & control; D002670:Child, Abandoned / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003906:Developing Countries; D005190:Family; D005581:Foster Home Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D007630:Kenya; D007872:Legal Guardians