caa a22 4500 39758315X CHVBK 20180308164913.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199603 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/sw/41.2.190 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/sw/41.2.190 Kinship Care: The African American Response to Family Preservation [Elektronische Daten] [Maria Scannapieco, Sondra Jackson] The number of children entering the foster care system is increasing at an alarming rate. The increase in children entering foster care, compounded by political, economic, and social factors, has created a phenomenon in the African American community—formal kinship care. Formal kinship care is defined as a system through which the state or county has custody of the child but a relative takes care of the child. This article discusses increased kinship care as a resilient response by the African American community. The strengths and resilience of the African American family can be attributed in part to a strong kinship network. In this manner, the African American community is preserving the family. This community clearly needs support through imaginative social work policies and practice. Copyright © 1996 by the National Association of Social Workers, Inc. African Americans nationallicence family preservation nationallicence kinship care nationallicence resilience nationallicence Scannapieco Maria aut Jackson Sondra aut Social Work Oxford University Press 41/2(1996-03), 190-196 0037-8046 41:2<190 1996 41 sw https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/41.2.190 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/41.2.190 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Scannapieco Maria aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Jackson Sondra aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Work Oxford University Press 41/2(1996-03), 190-196 0037-8046 41:2<190 1996 41 sw Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford