Does Family Preservation Serve a Child's Best Interests?

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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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Introduction
3
Overview of Family Preservation
14
Empirical Support for Family Preservation and Kinship Care
23
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
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Impact on Child Welfare of the Multiethnic Placement and Adoption and Safe Families Acts
87

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Página 8 - October 1, 1983, provides that, in each case, reasonable efforts will be made (A) prior to the placement of a child in foster care, to prevent or eliminate the need for removal of the child from his home, and (B) to make it possible for the child to return to his home...
Página 6 - This aid should be given by such methods and from such sources as may be determined by the general relief policy of each community, preferably in the form of private charity rather than of public relief. Except in unusual circumstances, the home should not be broken up for reasons of poverty, but only for considerations of inefficiency or immorality.
Página 47 - PERMISSIBLE CONSIDERATION.— An agency or entity to which paragraph (1) applies may consider the cultural, ethnic, or racial background of the child and the capacity of the prospective foster or adoptive parents to meet the needs of a child of this background as one of a number of factors used to determine the best interests of a child.
Página 98 - I wondered too if couples I intended to interview would tell me the truth. Would some lie in order to cover up their mistakes and disappointments with the adoption? How much would they leave unsaid? Would some refuse to be interviewed because of their preconceived notions about my motives? Would they stereotype me as a hostile black sociologist who wanted to "prove" that these adoptions would produce unhealthy children?

Sobre o autor (2000)

Howard Altstein is a professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Maryland in Baltimore.

Ruth G. McRoy is director of the Center for Social Work Research, Distinguished Teaching Professor, and Ruby Lee Piester Centennial Professor in Services to Children and Families, at the University of Texas at Austin.

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