Does Family Preservation Serve a Child's Best Interests?Georgetown University Press, 2 de ago. de 2000 - 168 páginas In this new volume, two distinguished professors of social work debate the question of whether family preservation or adoption serves the best interests of abused and neglected children. Arguing the merits of keeping families together whenever possible, Ruth G. McRoy examines the background, theory, and effectiveness of family preservation programs. She provides practical recommendations and pays particular attention to the concerns of African American children. Claiming that there is insufficient evidence that family preservation actually works, Howard Altstein counters that children from truly dysfunctional families should be given the chance for stable lives through adoption rather than left in limbo. |
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... abuse and neglect cases : provide family preservation services , or place the child in out - of - home care and then terminate parental rights and place the child for adoption . In reality , arguments supporting either option are ...
... abusive families , partly due to research reports suggesting that abuse and neglect stemmed from inter- generational pathological problems . Therefore , child removal was seen as the best solution . Over the years , the competing ...
... abuse and neglect services , by the late 1970s , 75 percent of the funds were still being used for foster care instead of family support and preservation ( Burt and Pittman 1985 ) . By 1977 , 500,000 children were living away from their ...
... neglect or abuse , PL 96-272 also stipulated that child welfare services should prevent the unnecessary separation of children from their families , and called for the restoration of children to families from which they had been removed ...
... abuse and neglect . The growing incidence of AIDS , teen parenthood , poverty , and violence also influenced the increase in children coming into care . Between 1976 and 1993 , child abuse and neglect reports increased by more than 347 ...
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Adoption Challenges | 41 |
Family Preservation in the New Millennium | 50 |
PART TWO | 57 |
Family Preservation What Does the Research Say? | 59 |
Kinship Care | 79 |
Transracial Adoption | 97 |
Responses | 113 |
Commentary | 115 |
Response to McRoy | 121 |
Response to Altstein | 127 |
Bibliography | 133 |
Index | 151 |
Impact on Child Welfare of the Multiethnic Placement and Adoption and Safe Families Acts | 87 |