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Parental Rights vs. Best Interests of the Child: A False Dichotomy in the Context of Adoption [PDF]
, 1995 I. Introduction: Identifying the Controversy The mythology of adoption involves a scenario in which a teenage girl gets pregnant, and neither she nor the father is ready to raise a child. Upon birth, these young parents voluntarily relinquish the baby to
Beck, Olof +4 more
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Abusive and illegal practices in residential care are a recognised issue in child welfare internationally; thus, the question of how these institutions are supervised is important. However, children's residential care is complex by nature, making its supervision a challenging task.
Jenni Repo
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Child protection and welfare systems are entrusted with significant power by governments and are therefore a significant focus of monitoring activities. Monitoring can help to build a better child protection system and to ensure child safety; track policy and legislative implementation and resource allocation; contribute to preventing systemic
Kenneth Burns +3 more
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Stories Told and Untold: Confidentiality Laws and the Master Narrative of Child Welfare [PDF]
, 2010 In most states, child welfare hearings and records are sealed or confidential. This means that by law, court hearings and records may not be observed.
Fraidin, Matthew I.
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A hive of recent policy and legislative activity in Australian family law has emphasized the importance of children's right to participate in decision‐making following parental separation. Yet a powerful tension persists between supporting children's right to participation and protecting children from parental conflict.
Georgina Dimopoulos +3 more
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Single-Father Families: A Review of the Literature [PDF]
, 2015 The number of children residing in single-father families in the United States quadrupled as a proportion of children\u27s living arrangements during the past few decades of the 20th century.
Coles, Roberta L.
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The Role of Children's Voices and Feedback Mechanisms in Family Justice
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT When parents separate in Australia and in many other jurisdictions, most settle the parenting arrangements for their children between themselves or with the assistance of mediation or other dispute resolution processes. These processes may or may not take much account of children's views.
Judith Cashmore
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Stewardship of the evolving scholarly record: from the invisible hand to conscious coordination [PDF]
, 2015 The scholarly record is increasingly digital and networked, while at the same time expanding in both the volume and diversity of the material it contains.
Brian Lavoie, Constance Malpas
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We explored disabled birthing parents' fear of, and involvement with, child protective services in the perinatal period, including how such experiences impacted their prenatal, birth, and postpartum care. Birthing parents with a physical, sensory, and/or intellectual or developmental disability were recruited in Ontario, Canada, and completed ...
Claire Grant +7 more
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Globally, millions of children are adopted or placed in alternative care settings (i.e., residential, foster, or kinship care). The current study explores the factors leading to separation from parents and adoption or placement in alternative care by investigating orphanhood status, perceived antecedents to placement, types of alternative care
Nicole Gilbertson Wilke +2 more
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