Rethinking Orphanages for the 21st Century [Hardcover]

Richard B. McKenzie (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 11, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0761914439 | ISBN-13: 978-0761914433 | Edition: 1

This volume reviews the policy reforms necessary in the United States for children's homes to become reliable solutions for many of the nation's disadvantaged and abused children. The contributors explore a variety of topics including: judicial issues; child maltreatment; the history of children's homes; regulation and funding; and solutions for reform.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 334 pages
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc; 1 edition (September 11, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761914439
• ISBN-13: 978-0761914433
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,328,689 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From one who works in a county child placement unit., May 6, 2007

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Gilda Maccabee "Gildaleh" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rethinking Orphanages for the 21st Century (Paperback)

You'll wear out your yellow highlighter reading Dr. McKenzie's book, Rethinking Orphanages for the 21st Century. Many coworkers in my own placement unit and our social worker counterparts agree with Dr. McKenzie and other orphan alumni that a well-run orphanage could play a major role in rescuing children from the often damaging foster-care system that we are currently forced to rely upon. Children who are removed from abusive or negligent homes pay a double price once they enter the system of marginal foster care, or group homes and their renegade staff. This book is straight forward and easy to read; but if you need statistics, those are there, also. I salute Dr. McKenzie and the other contributors to this vital book --essential reading for or anyone in the Probation or Social Services industry, or for those who simply care for America's abused and neglected children.

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One woman's opinion, October 25, 2004

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This review is from: Rethinking Orphanages for the 21st Century (Paperback)

The review by Roger Kiser is pretty clearly an attack on Professor McKenzie and not an honest review of the book, Rethinking Orphanages for the 21st Century. It is clear from the first line of Mr. Kiser's review that he has not read the Rethinking Orphanages and may not have ever seen, much less held, a copy of the book. As a case in point, Mr. Kiser's first sentence in his review reads, "I found this book to be based on one man's opinion rather than on fact(s)." If Mr. Kiser had even casually looked at the cover of the book, much less the table of contents, he would have discovered that Professor McKenzie EDITED the volume, he did not WRITE it. This book contains the writings of 18 scholars from at least a half dozen different credible academic disciplines: economics, law, child welfare, journalism, psychology, and political science. The book even has a contribution by a state judge. Accordingly, Mr. Kiser's review should be disregarded as the machinations of a crank who has a personal bone to pick with Professor McKenzie. Mr. Kiser has clearly abused and misused the Amazon's review process to push his own favorite book.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An important book for an important topic, October 17, 2005

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Rex E. Head "Orphanage Consultant" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rethinking Orphanages for the 21st Century (Paperback)

I work supporting orphanages in third world countries. I also work with children in the US who are in dysfunctional families who receive government aid. This book supports the idea of orphanages as one of the tools in caring for children in need of support. I strongly recommend this book to anyone truly looking for ways to help children in need. It's ideas should be considered based on their merit and not on a political basis.