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Peer reviewedPlantz, Margaret C.; And Others – Children Today, 1989
Highlights the findings from the first systematic national examination of the effects of the Indian Child Welfare Act (P. L. 95-608). Examines the prevalence of Native American children in substitute care and the effects of this Act and others on Indian children and families. (RJC)
Descriptors: Children, Family Life, Nonreservation American Indians, Program Effectiveness
Peer reviewedSpicer, Paul – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 1998
Draws on interviews with 50 urban American Indians to examine how foster-care placements compromised former foster children's ability to parent their own children. Discusses the influence of parental drinking on family life, leading to child neglect and foster-care placement; differing experiences of foster children raised by extended family…
Descriptors: Child Neglect, Child Welfare, Drinking, Early Experience
