Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 2024
Abstract
Money impacts relationships. And when the money involved is a foster care subsidy to kinship caregivers, it can drive a wedge in relationships between parents and kinship caregivers that should be strengthened, not strained. Unfortunately, foster care funding incentivizes the “relational disruption”1 endemic to foster care, when it should instead support family members coming together to support each other and their children.
In contrast, Medicaid funding has increasingly supported family members taking care of each other and can provide child welfare with a model for funding family caregiving without disrupting relationships and without even requiring a family court or foster care case.
Disciplines
Family Law | Juvenile Law | Law
Recommended Citation
Joshua Gupta-Kagan,
Fund Kinship Caregivers to Help Keep Families Together, Not Separate Them,
2024(003)
Fam. Just. J.
24
(2024).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/4599