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Rand study finds few HIV-positive parents make formal guardianship arrangements for their children

Published in Hospital Law Weekly, March 1st, 2007

Few unmarried parents who are HIV-positive have made legally documented arrangements for who would care for their children if the parents die, according to a survey by the RAND Corporation.

RAND, a non-profit research organization, analyzed interviews with 222 unmarried parents with a total of 391 children from a nationally representative sample of HIV-infected adults. Of those parents:

- 12% had not identified a guardian for their children.

- 6% had identified a guardian but hadn't discussed their preference with the guardian.

- 53% said the guardian had agreed to be the guardian.

Only 28%...

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