Emerging Insights and Reminders
Stigma through the eyes of the child placed
• Issue of Stigma about living in kinship care
• do children tell their friends that they are in kinship care?
• '…24% said they had not told their friends anything;
• '60% said that a few close friends knew; and
• 14% said they were completely open about it'
• 2% did not answer' (Farmer, Selwyn and Meakings, 2013, p. 28).