Termination of parental rights

Which foster care children are affected

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12007751
AutoresKerrie Noonan (0000-0002-6441-2624, Rider University), Kelly Noonan (0000-0002-1728-3436, Rider University, autor de correspondencia), Kathleen Burke (0000-0001-8887-0091, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY, USA), Kathleen G Burke (SUNY Cortland)
Año2005
Volumen42
Número2
Páginas241-256
Fecha de publicación2005-04-30
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Social Science Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0362-3319 • E-ISSN: 1873-5355
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1016/j.soscij.2005.03.012
OpenAlexW2078263957
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas19
Referencias citadas9

In 1997, the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) was passed with a primary goal of expediting the process of placing foster children with permanent or adoptive families. In order to meet this goal, ASFA requires states to terminate parental rights if a child has been in foster care for 15 of the most recent 22 months. Prior empirical research on foster care dependence supports the provision in ASFA to expedite the discharge process because over time children are progressively less likely to be discharged from foster care. However, very little research has examined what impact terminating parental rights will have on this goal. One of the first steps is to examine which children are most likely to see the rights of their parents terminated and how these children differ from those children who are returned home. Using a competing risks hazard model we find many differences between the children who are sent home and those children whose parents have their rights terminated. AcknowledgementsThe data utilized in this paper were made available by the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect, Cornell University, Ithaca NY; and have been used by permission. Data from the study AFCARS were originally collected by the Children's Bureau, Department of Health and Human Services. Neither the collector of the original data, the funder, the Archive, Cornell University, or its agents or employees bear any responsibility for the analyses or interpretations presented here. We have benefited from comments by Mark Prus and Mechtild Nagle as well as the research assistance of Sara Tewksbury, Roxana Garcia and Jennifer Marogi. An earlier draft of this paper was presented at the 2000 New York State Economic Association Meetings.Notes1 We use the termination of the mother's rights as the termination date. In all but one case, the father's rights are terminated at the same time or earlier than the mother's rights

Economics · Fagan inspection · Foster care · Neglect · Political science · Psychiatry · Waiver · Child Abuse and Trauma · Child Welfare and Adoption · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Law · Psychology