Kinship Foster Care Synthesis

The paper published by The University of Tennessee, Children's Mental Health Services Research Center titled “Kinship Family Foster Care: A Methodological and Substantive Synthesis of Research” is peer reviewed paper in which the purpose of this paper is to talk about how studies made about kinship foster care (a relative taking care of the children instead of a stranger) have been incomplete or not conclusive enough. The article itself is not helpful because it is focused more on the methodology of other studies, but in doing that the paper provides a good summary of other literature about the topic and how kinship foster care can affect positively or negatively a person and gives the general tendencies that kinship foster care is having in
the last few decades. The author of the article, Gary S. Cuddeback, starts by giving a brief summary of how the number of children who are living with relatives and that it has increased in the last decade at the moment that the paper was written and published. This grow challenged child welfare practice, policy, and research about foster care with relatives.