“…Social workers are not involved in the decision‐making process. In addition to commonly known factors like the risk of abuse and neglect, other factors including opportunities for children to attend better schools in the cities, provision of support with household chores or encouraging relationship building between younger children in the family, influence the decision to move children into the care of kin (Ariyo, Mortelmans, & Wouters, 2019; Malinga‐Musamba, 2015; Maundeni & Malinga‐Musamba, 2013; Olusanya & Hodes, 2000). Although children in kinship care in Ghana may have negative experiences like inadequate parental attention and emotional bonding (Kuyini, Alhassan, Tollerud, Weld, & Haruna, 2009), children appear to experience more positives (Abdullah, Cudjoe, & Manful, 2020; Cudjoe, Abdullah, & Chiu, 2020).…”