Two social work authorities debate the question of whether family preservation or adoption serves the best interests of abused & neglected children.
List of Tables
vii
Authors' Biographies
ix
Series Editor's Preface
xi
Rita J. Simon
Part One
Family Preservation's Essential Services in the New Millennium:
Ruth McRoy
Introduction
3
(11)
Overview of Family Preservation
14
(9)
Empirical Support for Family Preservation and Kinship Care, with Cinda L. Christian and Elizabeth E. Thompson
23
(18)
Adoption Challenges
41
(9)
Family Preservation in the New Millennium
50
(9)
Part Two
Family Preservation/Adoption: Misplaced Hope versus What Works:
Howard Alstein
Family Preservation: What Does the Research Say?
59
(20)
Kinship Care
79
(8)
Impact on Child Welfare of the Multiethnic Placement and Adoption and Safe Families Acts
87
(10)
Transracial Adoption
97
(36)
Part Three
Responses
Commentary
115
(6)
Ruth McRoy
Response to McRoy
121
(6)
Howard Alstein
Response to Altstein
127
(6)
Ruth McRoy
Bibliography
133
(18)
Index
151
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