Emerging Insights and Reminders
The emotional world of kinship care
• Special significance of the complex emotional and relational dynamics in
kinship care
• The web of loyalties, ambivalences, silences and more in each family
network
• Implications of how we understand 'support'
• What carers, children, mothers and others need
• The what and how of support social workers can offer, and the support they need
• Supporting communication (Rose et al., 2022)