Generations United fact sheet summarizing research showing that children thrive in grandfamilies and do even better when well-supported by services (2023). 

Children Thrive in Grandfamilies Fact Sheet, a resource updated by Generations United, provides key facts about how children do in the care of relatives and a list of research articles to support the facts. 2023. 

The Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) reports on 2024 data for all children in foster care. To view a state-level kinship placement data map, visit this page. For a kinship placement map by race, go to www.grandfamilies.org/Resources/General-Kinship-Publications/Kinship-Diversity-Equity-and-Inclusion. 

The report, “Pathways to Success: K-12 Education Support for Kinship and Grandfamilies,” discusses how about 2.5 million children in grandfamilies and kinship families are impacted by educational challenges and actionable recommendations to improve their school support and services. 

The report, "The Costs of Caregiving: Why Supporting Grandfamilies & Kinship Care is Good for Children and Our Nation’s Economy" highlights the critical role these caregivers play in supporting children, families, and our nation’s child welfare system, as well as the challenges they face in doing so. 2025

- See this document for an explanation of how the calculation of kinship caregivers’ unrecognized support to child welfare system was determined.