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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... living in out - of - home care ( 5.8 children per 1,000 children in the child population ) . Many of these children were from poor families . In 1935 , the Social Security Act was passed to provide a financial safety net for families to ...
... living away from their families in foster care ( Shyne and Schroeder 1978 ) and the average length of time in care was 2.4 years . This represented not only an increase in the number of children in care , but an increase in the length ...
... were lower in states that had higher proportions of children living below the poverty level ( Newlin 1997 ) . In the late 1980s , however , foster care placements 8 Family Preservation's Essential Services in the New Millennium.
... living outside of their homes ( MacDonald 1994 ) , and in 1995 , the number had risen to an estimated 486,000 ( Child Welfare League of America 1998 ) . Estimates in 1997 suggested that about 500,000 children were in care ( Zumwalt 1997 ) ...
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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 |