Claudia Rowe

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard · Claudia Rowe (on the foster care system) · 4 Feb 2026 podcast

So kinship care.

So people have only very recently, like in the past few years, and I'm not talking the past 10 years.

I'm talking the past three years or so.

A recognition that, okay, there seems to be better outcomes if a kid is placed with someone they know, a relative or even fictive kin, which could be like a family friend or a teacher or a coach.

Someone who knows the kid or knows their community is connected with them in some way.

Kinship care.

So it used to always be that grandma took in her grandkids, but those people never got the state money.

So they never got the money that goes to foster parents, to strangers.

They were just bankrupting their retirement by caring for their kin.

The change is that more and more states, including Washington State and nationally, it is happening that you can now become licensed as a kinship provider just for your relatives.

So you don't have to jump through all the hoops and all the training that...

are required of sort of conventional foster parent strangers.

You can just be licensed for your relative and get the state support.

So this is a change.

Is it perfect?

Probably not.

Nothing is.

But it is better.

Certainly a significant reform.

And incredibly, even until pretty recently, perhaps even to this moment, there are definitely people who go,

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