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Gerald P. Mallon (Author)

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Gerald P. Mallon, DSW, is the Julia Lathrop Professor of Child Welfare and Executive Director of the National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections at the Hunter College Social Work in New York City.

For more than 36 years, Dr. Mallon has been a child welfare practitioner, advocate, educator, and researcher. More than 25 years ago Dr. Mallon started the Green Chimneys program for LGBTQ youth, the first mainstream child welfare agency in the country to care for these youth.

Dr. Mallon is the Senior Editor of the professional journal, Child Welfare and the author or editor of more than twenty-one books. His most recent publication with Peg Hess is Child Welfare for the Twenty-First Century, to be published by Columbia University Press in 2012.


Dr. Mallon has lectured and worked extensively throughout the United States, and internationally in Australia, Canada, Cuba, Indonesia, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.

Dr. Mallon earned his doctorate in Social Welfare from the City University of New York at Hunter College and holds an MSW from Fordham University and a BSW from Dominican College, and he puts his money where is mouth is as he has been a foster parent and is an adoptive parent.

He lives in New York City and New Orleans, Louisiana.

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More than seven years ago, British social workers Stephen Hicks and Janet McDermott reminded us that "Lesbians and gay men have always been involved in having and raising children" (1999, p. 147). Read the first page
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United States, Census Bureau, African American, New Jersey, New York, Lambda Legal, District of Columbia, Supreme Court, Judge Murdock, Children's Defense Fund, New Mexico, New Hampshire
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