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Predicting re-involvement for children adopted out of a public child welfare system
- Author:
- ORSI Rebecca
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 39, 2015, pp.175-184.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Some children placed out-of-home in a public child welfare system will not reunify with their family of origin. They may instead be adopted into a new family. Adoption placements can be characterized by poor adjustment for children; some such placements even result in disruption or dissolution. This study conducted a stratified Cox regression of 4,016 children from the Colorado public child welfare system. All of the children had a finalised adoption during the years 2002 through 2006. The two outcomes analysed were new child protection and youth-in-conflict referrals and assessments for these previously adopted children. New child welfare referrals and assessments may be early indicators of poor adjustment for adopted children within the adoptive family. Study results indicate that older children and Hispanic children had higher rates of referral and assessment. Children with a pre-adoption history including longer time out-of-home or a larger number of out-of-home placements also experienced higher referral and assessment rates. Additional factors which predicted subsequent system re-involvement included presence of paid adoption assistance, adoption by a non-relative foster parent and younger adoptive parent age. Several study results were moderated by the presence or absence of an ethnic match between the child and the adoptive parents. This article provides an overview of the statistical model used for analysis and we discuss implications of the study results for child welfare practice. (Edited publisher abstract)
Rethinking child protection and adoption: achieving social justice in practice
- Authors:
- STEVENS Clarissa, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Critical and Radical Social Work, 8(1), 2020, pp.125-132.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This article presents contributions made at the ‘Rethinking Fostering and Adoption: Achieving Social Justice in Practice’ plenary at the 2019 Social Work Action Network conference. The contributors write from a variety of vantage points but share the view that the current child protection and adoption system in England requires radical transformation in order to become more humane, supportive and socially just. The article begins with an outline of the ‘investigative turn’ in children’s services and key findings from the adoption enquiry of the British Association of Social Workers. It goes on to argue, from lived experience perspectives, that we urgently need a new kind of children’s social care system that foregrounds support, rights, social inclusion and trauma prevention. (Edited publisher abstract)
Hershman and McFarlane Children Act Handbook 2011/12
- Authors:
- HERSHAMN David, MCFARLANE Andrew
- Publisher:
- Family Law
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 764p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This annual publication provides a single volume source of key children proceedings legislation and related guidance. Part I details the Adoption and Children Act 2002 and the Children Act 1989. Part II provides two statutory instruments, the Allocation and Transfer of Proceedings Order 2008 and Family Procedure Rules 2010. Part III covers practice directions and guidance. The concluding section, IV, includes easy-to-use in court calendars for 2009-2012.
Voices in the adjudication of compulsory adoption in Israel: the hegemonic voice of the professional expert and the unheard voice of the biological parents
- Author:
- BEN-DAVID Vered
- Journal article citation:
- Adoption Quarterly, 14(2), April 2011, pp.132-156.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia
This article explores the courts attitude towards the biological parents and mental health experts in cases of compulsory adoption in Israel. It suggests that ambiguity in the definitions of parental incapability and child's best interests in adoption law allows for different voices to determine their meaning. With regard to compulsory adoption, conclusions from literature of the judicial discourse suggests that the voice of the professional expert is dominant and that of the biological parents as unheard, revealing the nature of the practices that lead to the deligitimisation of the parents’ voice. The article, in order to bring about a balanced representation of the different voices, proposes a “moralisation” of the legal procedure of adoption that stresses its rehabilitative rather than condemnatory nature.
“It's about us”: marital adjustment and marital adaptation in couples who adopt children from the child welfare system
- Authors:
- MOORADIAN John K., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Family Social Work, 14(3), May 2011, pp.262-280.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
In the United States, the number of adoptions from the child welfare system is increasing. As the number of adoptive families grow, there is an increased need among adoption professionals, couple and family therapists, social workers and researchers to understand specific relational processes that affect family development. This article examines the marital relationships of 22 couples who adopted children from the child welfare system. The participants were enrolled in four focus groups. Findings revealed initial marital adjustments that featured husbands' support of their wives' initiation of adoption and management of child needs. About one half of these couples also developed time together and mutual influence to achieve a state of marital adaptation characterised by deeper intimate connection. In conclusion, the authors encourage professionals to understand the potential course of development of these marital relationships and to integrate attention to marital development into service throughout the adoption process from the child welfare system.
Journal of Public Child Welfare
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The Journal of Public Child Welfare presents quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods theory-based or applied research, cogent reviews of the literature, policy analyses, and program evaluation articles about child welfare. Topics include: child protective services; child maltreatment; foster care; adoption; recruitment/preparation/retention of foster/adoptive parents; family team conferencing; relative/kinship care; independent living services for youth; relationship with and role of the courts; risk assessment; residential care; permanency and concurrent planning; family preservation; child welfare workforce issues; evidence-based practices; parent/child visitation; financing; policy issues; administration and supervision. Articles from this journal are abstracted and indexed selectively on Social Care Online.
Recent changes in adoption and fostering in Spain
- Authors:
- PALACIOS Jesus, AMOROS Pere
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 36(6), September 2006, pp.921-935.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
As in many other countries, adoption and foster-care have seen important changes in Spain. Adoption of healthy Spanish babies has now become the exception, while special needs and inter-country adoptions have become much more common. Foster-care, in its turn, has also changed, and now there are new types of fostering arrangements and new professional practices substituting old ones. This article presents a summary of the main changes that occurred in recent years in the context of adoption and foster-care in Spain.
Is survival the fittest?: a post hoc evaluation of event history estimations in an experimental design
- Authors:
- SHLONSKY Aron, FESTINGER Trudy, BROOKHART M. Alan
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Youth Services Review, 28(7), July 2006, pp.841-852.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Survival analysis has become one of the most common statistical techniques for analyzing longitudinal data in the social sciences, largely due to its ability to produce unbiased estimates in the presence of censored or incomplete data. A follow-up case record review of subjects (N = 175) in a recent experimental study provides the opportunity to revisit original survival estimates and compare them to estimates generated using nearly complete data. Results indicate that Kaplan–Meier median estimates of survival time and parameter estimates using Cox Proportional Hazards Regression were relatively accurate despite differential censoring between the treatment and control groups. Estimated mean averages tended to be inaccurate in the presence of substantial censoring. Implications for research and practice are discussed.
Children's services grants 2005-06
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Education and Skills
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Education and Skills
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 8p.
This circular sets out the proposed requirements for the Safeguarding Children, Adoption Support and Special Guardianship Support Services, Choice Protects, Local Authority Change Fund, Integrated Children’s System, Community Based Refuge, Regional Development Workers, Looked After Children Taskforce and Looked After Children Field Force Grants for 2005-06.
Chinese adoption: practices and challenges
- Author:
- LIHUA Huang
- Journal article citation:
- Child Welfare Journal, 80(5), September 2001, pp.529-540.
- Publisher:
- Child Welfare League of America
The majority of children in China who are the subject of protective services are either abandoned or disabled. Reports on recent reform efforts in China's child welfare practices which have focused on the importance of providing safe, permanent families for children in lieu of long-term institutional care. Adoption and foster care are increasingly being seen as viable alternatives for these children.