Increasing scale of human suffering in the world caused by disasters, wars, violence, conflicts, old age problems, and other physical ailments, led to high demand for the care providers. Similarly demand of care providers in India is of no different arising out of poverty, violence, communal riots, ethnic conflicts, development induced displacements and the climate change disaster. The problem of care has penetrated even into the domain of the private life of the family. Social practices associated with caring are highly valued in the socio-cultural milieu. It is new way of thinking about care which can be incorporated into the conception of social pedagogy. This study foregrounds the absence of intimate parental care due to many socio-political circumstances which creates the vacuum in fostering the early childhood care. The objectives were to find out the challenges faced by kinship care takers in the society and invisible social stigma associated with the tag of orphans. Kinship care practice among the indigenous Poumai Naga tribe presents an alternative relational care to the modern institutional care for children. This indigenous way of caring for the orphans and destitute children by the relatives do not keep them away from the discrimination within the community. The stigma associated of being an orphan in the tribal community push them to the margins despite getting shelter under the roof. The descriptive research design was used with in-depth interviews with the elders, care receivers and care providers in the community. The article concludes that relational bond instead of obligatory sense is the guiding factor for keeping the child with them despite the hardships and natural allure of sending them to institutional care.
