Kinship

It can be very distressing and confusing to learn that a child you are related to has entered foster care due to a situation of abuse or neglect in their home. If you are looking to become a [...]

Anytime a new person joins a household, there will be changes in the family dynamic. These changes can be positive and can enrich the relationships between all involved, but there may also be [...]

Many children that come into care are cared for by grandparents or other relatives. This can have a lot of mixed feelings for the relative caregiver and for the child in care. As a grandparent, [...]

Many relative caregivers have said they just didn’t know how hard everything would be until the day came when they realized that they were now the “parent” to their relative’s children. Many also [...]

Written from a child’s point of view, this touching picture book centers around a nontraditional family of grandparents raising their grandchild. Sometimes It’s Grandmas and Grandpas [...]