Child Welfare Policy in the United States

Recent developments in child welfare in the United States can be seen as enactments of state paternalism toward families. New programs and procedures in the areas of foster care and “in‐home” family services aim to reinforce parents' and childrens' rights, but these rights are typically framed as protections against bureaucratic abuse rather than as rights to basic material resources. The prevailing cultural assumption toward child welfare in the United States is that the government should not intervene in family life unless there is legal evidence of functional failure. Families are still seen as autonomous units that essentially determine their own fates. This ideology serves to limit the public and political perception of more preventive and developmental options

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• Institutionalization

  Open Access•Miriam Mcnown Johnson, Rita Rhodes•Advances in Social Work•2007

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• Foster parent involvement in service planning

  Open Access•Andrew Sanchirico, W Josephine Lau et al.•Children and Youth Services Review•1998

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• The Truly Disadvantaged

  William Julius Wilson•Truly Disadvantaged•2012

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• The State of Americaʼs Children 1991

  Robert F Valois•Family & Community Health•1992

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• Mothers alone

  Open Access•William C Horner•Children and Youth Services Review•1989

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• Within our reach

  Open Access•Richard P Barth•Children and Youth Services Review•1989

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• Foster care as a two-tiered system

  Open Access•David Fanshel•Children and Youth Services Review•1992

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• Homebuilders and family preservation

  Open Access•Peter Forsythe, Peter W Forsythe•Children and Youth Services Review•1992

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• Assessing family preservation programs

  Open Access•Peter H Rossi•Children and Youth Services Review•1992

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• Child age and outcome correlates in intensive family preservation services

  Open Access•Howard Bath, Howard I Bath et al.•Children and Youth Services Review•1992

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• The American Philosophy of Welfare

  Open Access•Dilys M Hill, Dilys Hill•Social Policy and Administration•1992

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• Beyond Permanency Planning

  Leroy H Pelton•Social Work•1991

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• Foster Care in New York and Illinois

  Fred H Wulczyn, Robert M Goerge•Social Service Review•1992

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• Child and Family Functioning after Intensive Family Preservation Services

  Kathleen Wells, Dale Whittington•Social Service Review•1993

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• Permanency Planning

  Edith Fein, Anthony N Maluccio•Social Service Review•1992

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• The Ghetto Underclass and the Social Transformation of the Inner City

  William J Wilson•The Black Scholar•1988

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