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Kinship care verses foster care for children The study conducted by Eun Koh and Mark Testa compared the differences in characteristics between children who were put into kinship care verses nonkinship foster care from March 1998 to September 2007. The researchers used the states of Illinois Adoption and Foster Care Analysis Reporting Systems (AFCARS) data to complete the study. The two null hypothesis were: “children initially placed in kinship foster care during their first removal episode are no less likely to achieve legal permanence through reunification, adoption, and guardianship than are children initially placed in nonkinship foster care during their first removal episode; children initially placed in kinship foster care during their first removal episode are no more likely to experience placement stability than are children initially placed in nonkinship foster care during their first removal episode” (Koh 2008). The method they used to overcome limitation and keep the two …show more content…

They used a cross-tabular chi square analysis to compare reunification, guardianship, or adoption between the two groups when looking at the placement stability. Finally, the accelerated failure time model was used handle the data being interval-censored. The study found that kinship care has more likely to experience stability than those who were in nonkinship care. The legal permeance for the child in nonkinship care has significant difference over those who are in kinship care only during the first year. However, after the first year there is no significant difference between the two. In conclusion, the study proved that children in kinship care feel more stable during the first year and that nonkinship care is more likely to gain legal

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