After Safety, What is the Goal of Child Welfare Services: Permanency, Family Continuity or Social Benefit?

Barth, Rick

doi:10.1111/1468-2397.00091

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“…A key policy question is one of degree: how aggressive should child protective services be? Child protection agencies trade off two competing goods: family preservation and child protection (Barth, 1999;Lindsey, 1994;Maluccio, Pine, and Warsh, 1994). More aggressive child protection may reduce child abuse or neglect, but removal from parents may be traumatic to children as well.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Causal effects of foster care: An instrumental-variables approach

Doyle

2013

Children and Youth Services Review

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Abstract:This paper describes the use of instrumental-variables (IV) to estimate causal effects of foster care on long-and short-term outcomes. This estimation strategy provides a tool to evaluate what are known as "natural experiments": settings that mimic randomization usually associated with a controlled trial. The proposed natural experiment involves the effective randomization of investigators to child-protection cases. The results suggest that foster care placement increases like likelihood of delinquency and emergency healthcare episodes. Care must be taken when interpreting IV estimates. The results apply to cases that are part of the natural experiment-"marginal cases" where the investigators may disagree about the placement recommendation.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Causal effects of foster care: An instrumental-variables approach

Doyle

2013

Children and Youth Services Review

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“…Among recent studies, there is a high degree of agreement that stability during the care intervention is a facilitating factor for returning home (Goerge 1990; Courtney 1994; Davis et al . 1997; Barth 1999; Teare et al . 2001).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There is also a broad consensus on the fact that a long period of stable foster care, whilst less likely to end in reunification, is a factor associated with success if reunification does, in fact, occur (Courtney 1994;Davis et al 1997;Barth 1999). Consistent with this finding, a period of less than 3 months does not tend to be associated with successful reunification, as there has not been sufficient time for positive changes to take place in the birth family (Courtney 1994;Davis et al 1997;Rzepnicki et al 1997;Barth 1999;Shaw 2006).The timing of return has been related to child's behaviour and to the reason for being in care (Bullock et al 1993).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Factors associated with family reunification for children in foster care

López¹,

Valle

Montserrat

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Child & Family Social Work

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In this paper, we analyse reunification processes from family foster care, both kinship and non‐kinship, and the variables associated with them in a Spanish sample. Data collection was carried out after a review of child protection and foster care files, and those responsible for the cases were also consulted. The cases studied were closed, which made it possible to assess the final outcome of the fostering. We found that only one‐fifth of the children return to their birth family after the fostering, and that those in non‐kinship are less likely to do so. Seven factors were associated with family reunification processes: age of the child, kinship care with family co‐operation, drug dependence in parents, neglect due to alcoholism, foster care under voluntary arrangement with visits, short‐term fostering with family co‐operation and parental impossibility due to imprisonment. The contribution of these data takes on particular importance given that the Spanish child protection system keeps no official statistics on the development or outcome of its interventions and records even less information on the factors associated with such outcomes.

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“…One vision—embraced by child welfare scholars for many years and, most recently, by the influential Annie E. Casey Foundation–sponsored Family to Family program—is that more foster care will be in the local neighborhood and that foster parents will work cooperatively with biological parents to achieve reunification or open adoption. This vision reminds us that foster parents have a tripartite role: (a) working with biological parents and social workers to help promote reunification until that goal is beyond reason and time, (b) supporting the achievement of other permanency options, and (c) helping a child to make developmental gains (Barth, 1999a). Foster families will often bring different emphases and skills to their role.…”

Section: Affordable Housingmentioning

confidence: 99%