What’s inside:

• Defining a sibling relationship • Legal framework for protecting sibling connections • The importance of siblings • Sibling relationships in abusive or neglectful families • Benefits of placing siblings together • Barriers to placing siblings together • Practices for keeping siblings together in placement • When siblings cannot live in the same home • Maintaining ties between separated siblings • Sibling issues within the foster or adoptive family.

Published by:

Child Welfare Information Gateway
Children’s Bureau/ACYF 1250 Maryland Avenue,
SW Eighth Floor Washington, DC 20024 800.394.3366
Email: info@childwelfare.gov
https://www.childwelfare.gov