title: The heterogeneity of children and their experiences in kinship care.
abstract: Increasingly, children in need of out-of-home care are being placed in kinship care, yet few studies have followed their placement histories longitudinally to determine if these children constitute a homogeneous group or heterogeneous subgroups. This study of 484 children in kinship care in San Diego County, California, indicates that children in kinship care have markedly different sociodemographic and maltreatment histories, as well as heterogeneous placement experiences.
authors.affiliation: Children's Hospital, San Diego, CA, USA.
authors.forename: L K
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Leslie
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Landsverk
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Horton
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ganger
authors.forename: R R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Newton
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002140:California; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002669:Child Welfare; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005581:Foster Home Care; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors