Adoption and Looked after Children
A Comparison of Legal Initiatives in the UK and the USA
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11942598 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Sargent (Legal Services for Kansas Children's Service League, a private child-placing agency in Topeka, Kansas, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 44-52 |
| Publication date | 2003-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Adoption & Fostering (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-5759 • E-ISSN: 1740-469X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/030857590302700207 |
| OpenAlex | W2312573777 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 1 |
Increasing adoption placements for looked after children is the focus of recent initiatives to reform adoption law in both the UK and the USA. Developments in the law are aimed at providing permanent homes for looked after children by encouraging both increased adoptions and quicker decisions to move a child to adoption when the child cannot return home. New forms of permanent placement, in the form of a new type of guardianship, have also been created. Sarah Sargent compares and contrasts the initiatives in the USA and the UK
Economic growth · Economics · Foster care · Law reform · Legal guardian · Political science · Child Welfare and Adoption · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare · Law · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies
| Citations per year | 0.24 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2005 - 2019 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |