MediaIn the United States, family separation is often an occasion for assigning blame to individual people, but larger forces are at work. Those prevention techniques include training social workers to stop automatically equating poverty with child neglect. Kinship care promotes the cultural preservation ideal because it minimizes the trauma of removal, increases the likelihood of permanency, and preserves a child’s identity. Comparisons of kinship care and foster care show that children in the former arrangement are less like­ly to expe­ri­ence behav­ioral and men­tal health problems. But thanks to kinship care, we’re still connected.