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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... Social Learning Family Preservation Programs : Proportion of Families Avoiding Placement Table 3. Comparison of ... Work Activity per Year and Type of Family Table 6. Responses to : " Choices sometimes have to be made about children in ...
... Social Work from New York University in 1962. He has worked as a social worker in juvenile justice , foster care , and in school systems . After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois , Urbana , in 1971 , he was a Lecturer ...
... social work assume opposing positions on which policies are most likely to serve the best interests of children . Ruth McRoy argues that children should remain with their biological parents until and unless they , the parents , have ...
... case of " Mary Ellen , " a little girl who had been beaten and left alone for hours , the New York Society for the ... social work pioneers Mary Richmond and Jane Addams argued that children should not be removed from their families ...
... workers to simultaneously plan for more than one possible outcome ( Kroll 1998 ) . Although family - centered ap ... social isolation , and unemployment ; neighborhood factors such as a geographic area containing a concentration 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 |