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Dickson, Amy B.; Callahan, Kristin L.; Osofsky, Joy D. – ZERO TO THREE, 2016
The youngest children in foster care suffer disproportionately. The Adoption and Safe Families Act (1997) attempted to provide greater safeguards for children, which led courts to push for earlier reunifications between foster children and their biological families. Although no one wants young children to languish in the foster care system, early…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Young Children, Child Welfare, Juvenile Courts
Waldman, H. Barry; Perlman, Steven P.; Lederman, Cindy S. – Exceptional Parent, 2007
Children and youth in foster care are a vulnerable population. They are at risk for abuse, neglect, and permanent separation from birth parents and have a greater incidence of emotional and behavioral difficulties. This is not surprising because these children are abused, neglected, or abandoned by the very people who are supposed to love and care…
Descriptors: Physical Disabilities, Juvenile Courts, Child Welfare, Cerebral Palsy