Permanency Outcomes of Children in Kinship and Non -Kinship Foster Care: Minimizing the Effects of Selection Bias With Propensity Score Matching
Koh, Eun
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Title
Permanency Outcomes of Children in Kinship and Non -Kinship Foster Care: Minimizing the Effects of Selection Bias With Propensity Score Matching
Author(s)
Koh, Eun
Issue Date
2007
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Testa, Mark F.
Department of Study
Social Work
Discipline
Social Work
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Social Work
Language
eng
Abstract
Analyses of proportions and survival times were conducted to investigate the permanency outcomes of children in relative and non-relative foster homes using unmatched and matched AFCARS samples. The permanency outcomes include reunification, adoption, and legal guardianship, length of stay, placement stability, and foster care re-entry. The findings of the study imply that states' policy and practice regimes moderate the effects of placement type on children's permanency outcomes. The study illustrates that the effects of kinship placements on children's permanency outcomes vary across the states, especially in the areas of reunification, adoption, length of stay and foster care re-entry. The results disconfirm previous findings that children in relative foster homes have a uniformly lower likelihood of reunification, adoption, and discharge. However, the study confirms the advantages of kinship placements in the areas of placement stability and legal guardianship. The study reports uniform findings across the states in these two outcome areas, which are consistent with the findings of prior research that shows higher rates of guardianship and stability among kin placements. In the study, children in relative foster homes are more likely to experience placement stability and be discharged into legal guardianship than children in non-relative foster homes in all the states studied.
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