Returning children home: Clinical decision making in cases of child abuse and neglect.

Katz, Hila; Hampton, Robert L.; Newberger, Eli H.; Bowles, Roy Tyler; Snyder, Jane

doi:10.1111/j.1939-0025.1986.tb02725.x

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“…Elizabeth Jones and Karen McCurdy's (1992) analysis of data from the second National Incidence Study (NIS-2) finds that, when controlling for poverty, race is no longer a statistically significant determinant of the disproportionate number of reports involving African-American families. Several studies find no effect of race on the likelihood of placement after controlling for a broad range of factors, such as socioeconomic status, child and caregiver characteristics, functioning concerns, family configuration, maltreatment history, and maltreatment severity (Runyan et al 1981;Katz et al 1986;U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 1997;Zuravin and DePanfilis 1997;Tittle, Harris, and Poertner 2000).…”

Section: Overrepresentation Of African-american Children In Child Welmentioning

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Pathways to the Overrepresentation of Aboriginal Children in Canada’s Child Welfare System

Trocmé

Knoke

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2004

Social Service Review

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This study compares child welfare services provided to Aboriginal (Indian) and Caucasian children in Canada. The findings suggest that child welfare reports involving Aboriginal children are more likely to be classified as suspected or substantiated than reports for Caucasian children. Aboriginal children also are twice as likely to be placed in foster care. This overrepresentation in out-of-home placement is explained statistically by socioeconomic, child, parent, and maltreatment characteristics. In addition, these variables play a significant role in accounting for higher rates of case substantiation among Aboriginal children. These factors may reflect the multiple disadvantages experienced by Aboriginal families. Annual reports from provincial and territorial ministries of child and family services for the years 2000-2002 estimate that 76,000 children and youth are living in out-of-home care in Canada (Farris-Manning

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Section: Overrepresentation Of African-american Children In Child Welmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pathways to the Overrepresentation of Aboriginal Children in Canada’s Child Welfare System

Trocmé

Knoke

Blackstock

2004

Social Service Review

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141

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“…This was particularly true for young children. Since families headed by women are more likely to poor and poverty is associated with increased risk for placement (Katz et al, 1986;Lindsey, 1991), it is difficult to determine how much family composition itself influences placement decisions. Controlling for age, children living in female headed families were more likely to be placed in foster care while children from two parent families were more likely to be placed in residential care.…”

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Emergency shelter 80acement of rural children: Placement and discharge patterns

Hook

1994

Children and Youth Services Review

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The crisis in social work services to families and children, is reflected in the growing numbers of children being placed out of their homes (Allen, 1991), adolescents running away from home (Simons & Whitbeck, 1991), and homeless youth (Bass, 1992). In this context, identifying children likely to be referred for emergency services is especially crucial because these children are at heightened risk for out of home placement. This paper thus examines some of the patterns associated with placement and subsequent discharge of rural children in emergency shelter care.

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“…For example, studies have demonstrated the effect of the socioeconomic status or ethnicity of the parents on the decision-making process of child placement, to the detriment of the biological parents (Andersen and Fallesen 2010;Bebbington and Miles 1989;Harris and Hackett 2008;Jones 1993;Katz et al 1986;Lindsey 1994Lindsey , 1992Lindsey , 1991McPerson and Garcia 1983;Phillips et al 1971;Reich 2005;Roberts 2003;Ryburn 1993;White 2006). Professionals might thus consider social information in relation to the parents while deciding the placement of the child.…”

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Social Information in Court Decisions of Compulsory Child Adoption in Israel

Ben‐David

2010

Child Youth Care Forum

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Ambiguity over the concepts of ''parental capability'' and ''the child's best interests'' in the Israeli adoption law, and a lack of sufficient professional knowledge can lead to bias in the professional decision-making process regarding child adoption. This study investigates the idea that judges do not use only legal considerations and relevant information relating to the child-parent relationship but also social information about the biological parent whose parental capability is under legal consideration. The study makes use of the priming paradigm as a conceptual framework for understanding the possible effect of social information on legal judgments in child adoption cases. The textual narrative analysis of 130 court decisions in favor of compulsory adoption reveals the use in courts of three kinds of social information about biological parents: familial information, sexual information, and social-functional information. The study discusses the role of such information in establishing the judicial narrative of parental incapability. In order to ''de-bias'' the judicial decision-making process regarding child placement, a number of strategies for consideration as social policy are proposed.

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Returning children home: Clinical decision making in cases of child abuse and neglect.

Cited by 61 publications

References 12 publications

Pathways to the Overrepresentation of Aboriginal Children in Canada’s Child Welfare System

Pathways to the Overrepresentation of Aboriginal Children in Canada’s Child Welfare System

Emergency shelter 80acement of rural children: Placement and discharge patterns

Social Information in Court Decisions of Compulsory Child Adoption in Israel

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