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Children in Foster Care (Paperback)
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Children in Foster Care (Paperback)
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Researchers, practitioners, journalists and politicians
increasingly recognise that foster care throughout the world is in
a state of crisis. There are more and more children needing care
and, as residential alternatives dry up, more of these children are
being assigned to foster families. This book reports the major
findings of a two-year longitudinal study of 235 such children who
entered the foster care system in Southern Australia between 1998
and 1999. As well as examining the changing policy context of
children's services, the book documents the psychosocial outcomes
for these children, their feedback on their experiences of care,
and the views of their social workers and carers. In the process,
the book examines some cherished beliefs about foster care policy
and sheds new light on them. The research reveals that while most
children do quite well in foster care up to the two-year point,
there is a worrying amount of placement instability at a time when
the concentration of emotionally troubled children in care is
increasing throughout the western world. Although, surprisingly,
placement instability does not appear to produce psychosocial
impairment for a period of up to eight months in care, it has an
extreme effect on children who are moved from placement to
placement because no carer will tolerate their behaviour. These
children are consigned to a life of distribution and emotional
upheaval because of the lack of alternative forms of care. Another
unexpected finding of the research is that increasing the rate of
parental contact achieves little or nothing in relation to the
likelihood of family reunification. As child welfare increasingly
enters a world of research-based practice, Children in Foster Care
provides some much needed hard evidence of how foster care policy
and practice can be improved.
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