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Does Family Preservation Serve a Child's Best Interests? (Controversies in Public Policy) [Hardcover]

Howard Altstein (Author), Ruth G. McRoy (Author)

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0878407863 978-0878407866 September 2000
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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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.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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The merits of family preservation programs have been debated for many years; recent media accounts of child fatalities in families that receive family preservation services (Ingrassia and McCormick 1994) have fueled the controversy even further. Read the first page
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family preservation interventions, inracial adoption, family preservation services, family preservation efforts, kinship care families, family preservation programs, kinship care providers, kinship children, transracial adoptees, parental rights proceedings, traditional foster care, kinship caregivers, transracial placements, kinship foster care, transracial adoption, permanency plan, white foster parents, kinship placements, preservation designs, concurrent planning, avoiding placement, child welfare system, family foster care, child removal, nonwhite children
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African American, New York, Multiethnic Placement Act, Child Welfare League of America, Adoptable Children, Comprehensive Child Development Program, Native American, North American Council, Social Security Act, President Clinton, Task Force, United States, American Indian, General Accounting Office, Professor Altstein, Public Law, Supreme Court
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