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Child welfare reform in the United States: changing populations, policies and principles
- Author:
- BARTH R.P.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 5(3), July 1996, pp.159-164.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
The evolution of child welfare services depends at least as much on changing populations and practices as it does on policy. These three types of changes have interacted in the United States to create a far different child welfare system in 1995 than was in place in 1980 when the last comprehensive federal child welfare legislation was passed. This article considers the fundamental changes in these areas during the last 15 years and identifies points of progress and concern for the future of child welfare services in the United States.
Child welfare services in the United States and Sweden: different assumptions, laws and outcomes
- Author:
- BARTH R.P.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 1(1), July 1992, pp.36-42.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
The child welfare systems in Sweden and the United States were dramatically reformed beginning in the early 1980s. After ten years, the different results of these reforms are quite striking. These child welfare systems have different methods of preserving families in crisis; different assumptions about the role of birth parents, foster parents, and adoptive parents; and different goals for children who will not go home. Each of these areas is explored and recommendations made for re-examining child welfare services in both countries.