Foster Care And Best Interests Of The Child

Author : Sarah A. Font,Elizabeth T. Gershoff
Publisher : Springer
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 3030411451

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Foster Care and Best Interests of the Child by Sarah A. Font,Elizabeth T. Gershoff Pdf

This brief examines the U.S. foster care system and seeks to explain why the foster care system functions as it does and how it can be improved to serve the best interest of children. It defines and evaluates key challenges that undermine child safety and well-being in the current foster care system. Chapters highlight the competing values and priorities of the system as well as the pros and cons for the use of foster care. In addition, chapters assess whether the performance objectives in which states are evaluated by the federal government are sufficient to achieve positive health and well-being outcomes for children who experience foster care. Finally, it offers recommendations for improving the system and maximizing positive outcomes. Topics featured in this brief include: Legal aspects of removal and placement of children in foster care. The effectiveness of prior efforts to reform foster care. The regulation and quality of foster homes. Support for youth aging out of the foster care system. Racial and ethnic disparities in the foster care system. Foster Care and the Best Interests of the Child is a must-have resource for policy makers and related professionals, graduate students, and researchers in child and school psychology, family studies, public health, social work, law/criminal justice, and sociology.

Author : Naomi Schaefer Riley
Publisher : Bombardier Books
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781642936582

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No Way to Treat a Child by Naomi Schaefer Riley Pdf

Kids in danger are treated instrumentally to promote the rehabilitation of their parents, the welfare of their communities, and the social justice of their race and tribe—all with the inevitable result that their most precious developmental years are lost in bureaucratic and judicial red tape. It is time to stop letting efforts to fix the child welfare system get derailed by activists who are concerned with race-matching, blood ties, and the abstract demands of social justice, and start asking the most important question: Where are the emotionally and financially stable, loving, and permanent homes where these kids can thrive? “Naomi Riley’s book reveals the extent to which abused and abandoned children are often injured by their government rescuers. It is a must-read for those seeking solutions to this national crisis.” —Robert L. Woodson, Sr., civil rights leader and president of the Woodson Center “Everyone interested in child welfare should grapple with Naomi Riley’s powerful evidence that the current system ill-serves the safety and well-being of vulnerable kids.” —Walter Olson, senior fellow, Cato Institute, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies

Author : Joseph Goldstein
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Children
ISBN : 9780684823379

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The Best Interests of the Child by Joseph Goldstein Pdf

"The least detrimental alternative", the authors' seminal principle for safeguarding a child's growth and development by minimizing intrusions of the law, has been cited in more than 1,000 child custody cases since 1973.

Author : Joseph Goldstein,Anna Freund,Albert J. Solnit
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1984-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780029123607

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Beyond the Best Interests of the Child by Joseph Goldstein,Anna Freund,Albert J. Solnit Pdf

Three distinguished authorities in law, psychiatry, and child development critically evaluate current child placement laws.

Author : Sarah A. Font,Elizabeth T. Gershoff
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030411466

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Foster Care and Best Interests of the Child by Sarah A. Font,Elizabeth T. Gershoff Pdf

This brief examines the U.S. foster care system and seeks to explain why the foster care system functions as it does and how it can be improved to serve the best interest of children. It defines and evaluates key challenges that undermine child safety and well-being in the current foster care system. Chapters highlight the competing values and priorities of the system as well as the pros and cons for the use of foster care. In addition, chapters assess whether the performance objectives in which states are evaluated by the federal government are sufficient to achieve positive health and well-being outcomes for children who experience foster care. Finally, it offers recommendations for improving the system and maximizing positive outcomes. Topics featured in this brief include: Legal aspects of removal and placement of children in foster care. The effectiveness of prior efforts to reform foster care. The regulation and quality of foster homes. Support for youth aging out of the foster care system. Racial and ethnic disparities in the foster care system. Foster Care and the Best Interests of the Child is a must-have resource for policy makers and related professionals, graduate students, and researchers in child and school psychology, family studies, public health, social work, law/criminal justice, and sociology.

Author : Mitchell Rosenwald,Beth N. Riley
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Child welfare
ISBN : 9780231146876

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Advocating for Children in Foster and Kinship Care by Mitchell Rosenwald,Beth N. Riley Pdf

This book is the first to provide strategies for effective advocacy and placement within the foster care and kinship care systems. It also takes a rare look at the dynamics of the foster and kinship relationship, not just among children and the agency workers and service providers who intervene on their behalf, but also between children and those who take in and care for them as permanency develops. Drawing on their experience interacting with and writing about the institution of foster care, Mitchell Rosenwald and Beth N. Riley have composed a unique text that helps practitioners, foster parents, and relative caregivers realize successful transitions for youth, especially considering the traumas these children may suffer both before and after placement. Advocating for a child's best interests must begin early and remain consistent throughout assignment and adjustment. For practitioners, Rosenwald and Riley emphasize the best techniques for assessing a family's capabilities and for guiding families through the challenges of foster care. Part one details the steps potential foster parents and kinship caregivers must take, with the assistance of practitioners, to prepare themselves for placement. Part two describes tactics for successful advocacy within the court system, social service agencies, schools, and the medical and mental health establishments. Part three describes how to lobby for change at the agency and legislative levels, as well as within a given community. The authors illustrate recommendations through real-life scenarios and devote an entire chapter to brokering positive partnerships among practitioners, families, and other teams working to protect and transition children.

Author : Jeanette Skoglund,Renee Thørnblad,Amy Holtan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000589870

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Childhood in Kinship Care by Jeanette Skoglund,Renee Thørnblad,Amy Holtan Pdf

Kinship foster care involves placing children who cannot live at home in foster care with other members of their family or close network. This book sheds light on different aspects of kinship care development and practice. Using a 20-year longitudinal research study from Norway, this book shows the historical development of kinship care in Norway, research on kinship care, and how family life and relations are negotiated and lived in the span between private and public sphere. It includes the perspectives of the children, their parents and their relatives who have functioned as foster parents. Recognising that kinship care is complex, and needs to be understood and studied from different perspectives, the book describes, analyses and discusses a number of subjects: kinship care in a child welfare historical context, families who are part of kinship care and their perspectives, the formal frameworks around kinship care, and research approaches which have dominated research into kinship care. This book will be of interest to all scholars, students and professionals working in social work and child welfare more broadly, both in the Nordic countries and in a wider international context.

Author : Robert John Flynn,Peter M. Dudding,James G. Barber
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780776635538

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Promoting Resilience in Child Welfare by Robert John Flynn,Peter M. Dudding,James G. Barber Pdf

Since the beginnings of its development in Britain in 1987, the Looking After Children (LAC) initiative has had a profound influence in Canada-as well as in Australia and across Europe-in sharpening the developmental focus and improving the quality of services for children and adolescents who, because of abuse, neglect, extreme poverty, or other circumstances, live in out-of-home care. Promoting Resilience in Child Welfare presents reviews of research, new empirical findings, and useful practice and policy suggestions derived from the perspectives of LAC and resilience theory by an array of international voices. Practitioners, out-of-home care providers, youths in care, in-service trainers, students, researchers, and many others will find much in this book that speaks to more effective ways of improving the lives of young people being looked after in out-of-home care. (Midwest).

Author : United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : PSU:000058166543

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In the Best Interest of the Children? by United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Children
ISBN : IND:30000091015325

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Foster Care : Problems and Issues by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education Pdf

Author : Robert and Miriam Fertig, M.A.
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-22
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781491739624

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Best Interests of the Children by Robert and Miriam Fertig, M.A. Pdf

What should professionals—judges, lawyers, teachers, social workers, and Guardian ad Litem or CASA volunteers –consider in pursuing the Best Interest of Children who have been abandoned, neglected or abused? How can Department of Children and Families improve their systems? Best Interests of the Children explains that the ethical principles of Beneficence and Non-Maleficence exist in the medical world to maximize benefit and to avoid harm to patients. The duty is to assist persons in need, and its converse, the duty to refrain from causing harm. These same principles should apply to the “Best Interest” standard used in the children and families dependency welfare system, to protect defenseless children from parental abandonment, neglect and abuse. When parents separate, which of them should have primary responsibility for the child’s care? Who is the actual “psychological” parent? With compassion and actual case experiences, the authors, Miriam and Robert Fertig, help readers understand many of the key issues inherent in childcare decisions. They present a dozen Florida cases, as seen through the “Eyes of Guardians.” They conclude that timely and effective services and continuity of care for the family is essential for the physical, emotional and psychological well-being of children. Case summaries from other states indicate that America’s Department of Children and Families (DCF) has serious “systemic problems.” The authors propose realistic solutions to improve this nationwide system. Best Interests of the Children will also enlighten the public and their legislators. “Best Interests” is an eye-opening, heart-wrenching, information-packed guide to the world of families in crisis and the crucial role of Guardian ad Litem. Written in a conversational style, it can be blunt and feisty at times, but is always enlightening. I found myself shocked on one page, and then extremely edified and encouraged on the page that followed. Any book that is so provocative and stimulating will occasionally ignite a mental mini-debate between reader and author, but this is part of the “fun and education,” that comes from any book this stimulating, that penetrates mind and heart at the same time. Highly recommended. — Reader Review by: Thomas Woodward (Ph.D. USF), Professor of Trinity College, Founder and Director of the C. S. Lewis Society, in Florida

Author : Lorraine Fox Harding
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317889427

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Perspectives in Child Care Policy by Lorraine Fox Harding Pdf

Child care law and policy issues generate very strong emotions and some crucial questions concerning the role of the state. For instance, under what circumstances should the state be able to intervene and use the force of the law to protect children? Do children have similar rights to adults? Such questions are matters of controversial debate and, in the light of well publicised child abuse cases, official inquiries and a government review led to the passing of the Children Act in 1989. Perspectives in Child Care Policy presents four different value perspectives on child care policy - laissez-faire; state paternalism; defence of the birth family and children's rights. These perspectives differ in their underlying values, concepts and assumptions concerning children, families, the rights and powers of parents and the role of the state.

Author : Ruth Hubbell McKey
Publisher : Philadelphia : Temple University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015040512983

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Foster Care and Families by Ruth Hubbell McKey Pdf

Author : Robert and Miriam Fertig, M.A.
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-22
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781491739631

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Best Interests of the Children by Robert and Miriam Fertig, M.A. Pdf

What should professionals?judges, lawyers, teachers, social workers, and Guardian ad Litem or CASA volunteers ?consider in pursuing the Best Interest of Children who have been abandoned, neglected or abused? How can Department of Children and Families improve their systems? Best Interests of the Children explains that the ethical principles of Beneficence and Non-Maleficence exist in the medical world to maximize benefit and to avoid harm to patients. The duty is to assist persons in need, and its converse, the duty to refrain from causing harm. These same principles should apply to the ?Best Interest? standard used in the children and families dependency welfare system, to protect defenseless children from parental abandonment, neglect and abuse. When parents separate, which of them should have primary responsibility for the child's care? Who is the actual ?psychological? parent? With compassion and actual case experiences, the authors, Miriam and Robert Fertig, help readers understand many of the key issues inherent in childcare decisions. They present a dozen Florida cases, as seen through the ?Eyes of Guardians.? They conclude that timely and effective services and continuity of care for the family is essential for the physical, emotional and psychological well-being of children. Case summaries from other states indicate that America's Department of Children and Families (DCF) has serious ?systemic problems.? The authors propose realistic solutions to improve this nationwide system. Best Interests of the Children will also enlighten the public and their legislators. ?Best Interests? is an eye-opening, heart-wrenching, information-packed guide to the world of families in crisis and the crucial role of Guardian ad Litem. Written in a conversational style, it can be blunt and feisty at times, but is always enlightening. I found myself shocked on one page, and then extremely edified and encouraged on the page that followed. Any book that is so provocative and stimulating will occasionally ignite a mental mini-debate between reader and author, but this is part of the ?fun and education, ? that comes from any book this stimulating, that penetrates mind and heart at the same time. Highly recommended. ? Reader Review by: Thomas Woodward (Ph.D. USF), Professor of Trinity College, Founder and Director of the C. S. Lewis Society, in Florid

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Adoption
ISBN : PSU:000014999062

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Foster Care, Child Welfare, and Adoption Reforms by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation Pdf