Foster Care Reform in the 70's
Author | : Susan Downs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Adoption |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Susan Downs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Adoption |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Nina Bernstein |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2002-02-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0679758348 |
IIn 1973, a young ACLU attorney filed a controversial class-action lawsuit that challenged New York City’s operation of its foster-care system. The plaintiff was an abused runaway named Shirley Wilder who had suffered from the system’s inequities. Wilder, as the case came to be known, was waged for two and a half decades, becoming a battleground for the conflicts of race, religion, and politics that shape America’s child-welfare system. The Lost Children of Wilder gives us the galvanizing history of this landmark case and the personal story at its core. Nina Bernstein takes us behind the scenes of far-reaching legal and legislative battles, but she also traces the life of Shirley Wilder and her son, Lamont, born when Shirley was only fourteen and relinquished to the very system being challenged in her name. Bernstein’s account of Shirley and Lamont’s struggles captures the heartbreaking consequences of the child welfare system’s best intentions and deepest flaws. In the tradition of There Are No Children Here, this is a major achievement of investigative journalism and a tour de force of social observation, a gripping book that will haunt every reader who cares about the needs of children.
Author | : Norris E. Class |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Child welfare |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Catherine E. Rymph |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2017-10-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469635658 |
In the 1930s, buoyed by the potential of the New Deal, child welfare reformers hoped to formalize and modernize their methods, partly through professional casework but more importantly through the loving care of temporary, substitute families. Today, however, the foster care system is widely criticized for failing the children and families it is intended to help. How did a vision of dignified services become virtually synonymous with the breakup of poor families and a disparaged form of "welfare" that stigmatizes the women who provide it, the children who receive it, and their families? Tracing the evolution of the modern American foster care system from its inception in the 1930s through the 1970s, Catherine Rymph argues that deeply gendered, domestic ideals, implicit assumptions about the relative value of poor children, and the complex public/private nature of American welfare provision fueled the cultural resistance to funding maternal and parental care. What emerged was a system of public social provision that was actually subsidized by foster families themselves, most of whom were concentrated toward the socioeconomic lower half, much like the children they served. Analyzing the ideas, debates, and policies surrounding foster care and foster parents' relationship to public welfare, Rymph reveals the framework for the building of the foster care system and draws out its implications for today's child support networks.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Child welfare |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Adoption |
ISBN | : |
Author | : G.V. Watson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Adopted children |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David Pitcher |
Publisher | : Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2013-10-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0857006827 |
Kinship care – the care of children by grandparents, other relatives or friends – is a major part of foster care, yet there are distinct issues that arise in care involving family rather than 'stranger' foster carers. This book takes an in-depth look at what goes on 'inside' kinship care. It explores the dynamics and relationships between family members that are involved in kinship care, including mothers, grandparents, siblings and the wider family. Chapters also discuss issues such as safeguarding, assessment, therapy, encouraging permanence, placement breakdown, support groups, and cultural issues. The final part of the book looks at kinship care from an international perspective, with examples from New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and the United States. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives and with contributions from different branches of kinship care, this book provides an invaluable overview of the issues involved and how to provide effective support. It will be essential reading for all those working in the kinship care field, including social workers, therapists, counsellors, psychologists and family lawyers.
Author | : Hans-Uwe Otto |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2019-07-08 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 3110886561 |
No detailed description available for "How to Organize Prevention".
Author | : John E. B. Myers |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Child welfare |
ISBN | : 9781413423020 |
A History of Child Protection in America is the first comprehensive history of American efforts to protect children from abuse and neglect. The book begins in colonial times and chronicles child protection into the twenty-first century. Among the important nineteenth century events detailed in these pages are the rise of orphanages for "dependent" children, the "orphan trains" operated by the New York Children's Aid Society, the birth of the juvenile court, the reforms of the Children's Progressive Era, and the dramatic rescue of Mary Ellen Wilson, which led to the creation of the world's first organization devoted entirely to child protection, the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Twentieth century milestones include the gradual transition from private child protection societies to government operated child protection, the obscurity of child abuse from the 1920's to the 1960's, the "discovery" of child abuse in 1962, and the creation of the child protection system we know today.