Emerging Insights and Reminders :
The potential lived realities of kinship care
• Poverty as a frequent companion of the kinship care household
• Child's experience of stigma
• Carers' experience of violence (from child placed)
• Carers silenced by the double bind of wanting to serve the child, but avoid
any threats to their role
'social workers must learn to ask the right questions in the right way and understand why it is so difficult
for grandparents to share difficult answers' (Holt and Birchall, 2022, p. 1245)