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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... problems associated with children and adults being placed together in almshouses . In the nineteenth century , Charity Organization Societies and other charitable organizations advocated for rescuing and protecting children from abusive ...
... problems stemming from their experiences of separation and loss ( Pecora et al . 1992b ) . However , in the 1960s , despite these growing concerns about the effects on children growing up in the system , children continued to be removed ...
... problems that might result in 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 ...
... problems of children in care , growth in single - parent households , and increase in divorce rates , as well as the increasing cost of child rearing ( Berrick 1998 ) . Partly in response to the decline in the number of foster families ...
... problem of dependent poor children . As the number of children in poverty has grown , along with a rise in reports of child abuse and neglect , the foster care system is now overloaded as it strives to accommodate the large numbers of ...
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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 |