The City of Detroit has 17,000 kinship
care families. Seventeen thousand. California has nearly one million children in kinship families. According
to the 2000 U.S.Census, six million children live in two and a half million homes of their relatives without their parents.
Kinship caregivers start with love then suddenly find themselves facing a range of barriers
in their care of the children. A Kinship Guide to Rescuing Children for Grandparents
and Other Relatives As Parents helps these courageous families navigate the
difficult world of public services through four main sections in the book:
1. How Did this Happen – legal options,
social services, counseling, schools and the endless organization of important papers
2. The Long Term commitment
3. How to Establish a Community
Kinship Care Resource Center
4.
Resources, Resources, Resources
Two hundred and sixteen pages of easy to read information helps the 41,328
kinship families in Chicago, 25,347 in Houston, and 83,949 in New York City as well as the smallest rural communities throughout
our country. See the Table of Contents for A Kinship Guide to Rescuing Children below:
