Kinship Foster Care On the Rise

Kinship Foster Care On the Rise - Hartford Courant:

NEW BRITAIN — It boiled down to an emergency.

After the tragic death of her son, Sonia Levy-Reid's twin grandsons, then 3, were on the verge of entering the unpredictable foster-care system. The sister of the children's mother had been taking care of the boys. The sister called Levy-Reid one day in the late winter of 2014 and said she was ending the arrangement.