Topic: Kinship
Kinship – Kinship care for Child Welfare Services is commonly defined as “the full-time care, nurturing, and protection of a child by relatives, members of their Tribe or clan, godparents, stepparents, or other adults who have a family relationship to a child.” For TANF, family relations can be represented concretely (mother, brother, grandfather) or abstractly […]
Degree of relationship – is a term used by the TANF program.
Policy 340:10-9-1 Specified Degree of Relationship In order to receive TANF, the child in the home must be related to the applicant within five degrees. Appendix I-7 (08AX028E) shows a Family Tree with degrees of kinship according to the law. Relationship may be based on blood, adoption or marriage (even if the marriage is terminated […]