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Direct linkPalacios, Jesús; Rolock, Nancy; Selwyn, Julie; Barbosa-Ducharne, Maria – Research on Social Work Practice, 2019
Purpose: A rich and heterogeneous body of knowledge about adoption breakdown has accumulated in recent years. The goal of this article is to review the existing research literature on the topic. Method: A comprehensive review of journal articles, book chapters, and technical reports addressing the issue of adoption breakdown was conducted.…
Descriptors: Adoption, Failure, Individual Characteristics, Parent Child Relationship
Brodzinsky, David; Smith, Susan Livingston – Research on Social Work Practice, 2019
Our commentary highlights the authors' conceptual and empirical contributions for understanding the incidence and dynamics of varying types of adoption breakdowns and their impact on adopted youth and their families. Important distinctions are made between legal, residential, and psychological/relational permanence for children. To date, most…
Descriptors: Adoption, Failure, Family Problems, Incidence
McCaughren, Simone; McGregor, Caroline – Child Care in Practice, 2018
This article considers how adoption may develop as viable option for permanency planning for children in care in Ireland following the Constitutional Referendum in 2012 on Children's Rights. In order to be prepared to consider how adoption can be developed as a viable alternative to long term care, we need to focus on the specific context of…
Descriptors: Adoption, Laws, History, Foreign Countries
Download full textClemens, Elysia V.; Klopfenstein, Kristin; Tis, Matt; Lalonde, Trent L. – Grantee Submission, 2017
Despite recent improvements in child welfare placement stability, youth in foster care still experience high rates of school moves. Although these findings are well documented in the literature, few studies have considered the interplay between child welfare placements and school moves. The purpose of this study was to determine the proportion of…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Foster Care, At Risk Students, Student Mobility
Dworsky, A.; Gitlow, E.; Horwitz, B.; Samuels, G. M. – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2019
This Research-to-Impact brief is the seventh in a series by Chapin Hall's Voices of Youth Count on understanding and addressing youth homelessness. Each year, nearly 4.2 million adolescents and young adults in America experience some form of homelessness. This brief focuses on the subset of young people who experience homelessness after spending…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Foster Care, Youth, Adolescents
Duncan, Jeffrey Dean – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Exchanging patient-specific information across heterogeneous information systems is a critical but increasingly complex and expensive challenge. Lacking a universal unique identifier for healthcare, patient records must be linked using combinations of identity attributes such as name, date of birth, and sex. A state's birth certificate registry…
Descriptors: Birth, Identification, Health Services, Guidelines
Sarubbi, Molly; Parker, Emily; Sponsler, Brian A. – Education Commission of the States, 2016
Postsecondary education in the United States has historically been the bedrock of individual social mobility and collective economic growth. Toward that end, policies at the state and federal levels have for decades sought to expand the reach of postsecondary education so as to provide individuals and communities with pathways to prosperity.…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Youth, Postsecondary Education, Educational Attainment
O'Brien, Valerie – Child Care in Practice, 2012
The outcomes for children in kinship care are generally seen as positive in terms of identity formation, stability of placement, behavioural and mental health outcomes, enabling siblings to live together and child protection. However, there is some disquiet about the length of time children stay with relatives; agencies are not sure about how best…
Descriptors: Siblings, Child Welfare, Foster Care, Child Care
Gibbs, Anita – Children & Society, 2011
The policy of re-adoption for UK-citizen parents of intercountry adopted children is designed to protect children and safeguard their best interests, but in fact may breach a variety of rights and international Conventions, and when applied to specific cases can lead to more harm than good. In this review, I want to argue that the policy of…
Descriptors: Courts, Adoption, Civil Rights, Foreign Countries
Ben-David, Vered – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2011
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…
Descriptors: Priming, Judges, Courts, Laws
Morrison, Carolyn; Fox, Kathleen; Cross, Terry; Paul, Roger – Child Welfare, 2010
Tribal sovereignty is a theory that has gained credibility over the past few decades, but one that the child welfare field has still not fully embraced. A mainstream reluctance to understand or accept customary adoption, unique to tribal culture, illustrates the lack of credibility given to tribal child welfare beliefs and practices. Roger Paul, a…
Descriptors: Tribal Sovereignty, American Indians, Child Welfare, Social Structure
Leifsen, Esben – Children & Society, 2008
Child trafficking activity often draws on formal administrative and legal resources. Formalisation implies considerable cooperation between public functionaries, lawyers and external actors. I argue that child rights advocates are forceful policy formulators who tend to ignore the public-external link because they focus on the external…
Descriptors: Children, Foreign Countries, Adoption, Childrens Rights
Belanger, Kathleen; Green, Deborah K.; Bullard, Lloyd B. – Child Welfare, 2008
The involvement of children of color in child welfare has a mixed history. Earlier research has revealed that there was an underrepresentation of minority children in the 19th century. It only grew during the 1970s and 1980s. It should be noted that the widespread concern about disproportionality is not mainly about the disproportionate numbers of…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Disproportionate Representation, Child Caregivers, Minority Group Children
Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J.; Bos, Karen; Bunkers, Kelley McCreery; Dobrova-Krol, Natasha A.; Engle, Patrice L.; Fox, Nathan A.; Gamer, Gary N.; Goldman, Philip; Groark, Christina J.; Greenberg, Aaron; Grotevant, Harold D.; Groza, Victor K.; Gunnar, Megan R.; Johnson, Dana E.; Juffer, Femmie; Kreppner, Jana M.; Le Mare, Lucy; McCall, Robert B.; Muhamedrahimov, Rifkat J.; Nelson, Charles A., III; Palacios, Jesus; Sonuga-Barke, Edmund J. S.; Steele, Howard; Steele, Miriam; Tieman, Wendy; van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.; Verhulst, Frank C.; Vorria, Panayiota; Zeanah, Charles H. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2011
This monograph reviews literature pertaining to children without permanent parents. Chapters review (1) the development of children while institutional residents; (2) the development of postinstitutionalized children transitioned to family environments (i.e., adoption); the effects of institutionalization on (3) attachment behaviors, (4) physical…
Descriptors: Evidence, Childrens Rights, Child Welfare, Young Children
Babb, L. Anne; Laws, Rita – 1997
A 1980 federal law made adopting and raising special needs children affordable even for persons with limited means. However, many prospective adopters never complete the adoption process because of red tape, regulations, and institutional lethargy; among the adults who complete a home study or placement, lack of support services and advocacy…
Descriptors: Adoption, Child Welfare, Children, Disabilities
