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The Tender Years$
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Jill Duerr Berrick, Barbara Needell, Richard P. Barth, and Melissa Jonson-Reid

Print publication date: 2000

Print ISBN-13: 9780195114539

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2009

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195114539.001.0001

Understanding Children and Families Served by the Child Welfare System

Chapter:
(p. 111 ) 7 Understanding Children and Families Served by the Child Welfare System
Source:
The Tender Years
Author(s):

Jill Duerr Berrick

Barbara Needell

Richard P. Barth

Melissa Jonson-Reid

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195114539.003.0007

This chapter reviews the case records of 100 randomly selected infants who were placed in foster care in the first year of their lives to learn about the family situations that typify the cases of young children. It focuses on children and families who might be characterized as the most successful by conventional indicators of performance in child welfare services. A summary of key findings and recommendations regarding the children and families served by the child welfare services system is presented at the end of the chapter.

Keywords:   child welfare services, foster care, families, young children

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