Racial Matching In Fostering

Author : Penny J. Rhodes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Racial Matching in Fostering written by Penny J. Rhodes and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is essentially and ethnographic case study of one London borough's response to the changing ideas about the placement of black children in substitute family care away from the old colour-blind approach towards an acceptance of the importance of 'racial' and cultural identity and the desirability of 'matched' placements. This change had two consequences; first, a need to recruit more black families and, second, a commitment to providing a 'more ethnically sensitive service'. This study looks at how new policy was developed and implemented and, in particular, how 'good' practice of the past came to be regarded as malpractice in the present and the tensions and conflicts which ensued. The recruitment and selection procedure for new foster parents is viewed as an interactive process in which applicants are active participants rather than simply passive objects.

Author : Naomi Schaefer Riley
Publisher : Bombardier Books
ISBN 13 : 1642936588
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Way to Treat a Child written by Naomi Schaefer Riley and published by Bombardier Books. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kids in danger are treated instrumentally to promote the rehabilitation of their parents, the welfare of their communities, and the social justice of their race and tribe—all with the inevitable result that their most precious developmental years are lost in bureaucratic and judicial red tape. It is time to stop letting efforts to fix the child welfare system get derailed by activists who are concerned with race-matching, blood ties, and the abstract demands of social justice, and start asking the most important question: Where are the emotionally and financially stable, loving, and permanent homes where these kids can thrive? “Naomi Riley’s book reveals the extent to which abused and abandoned children are often injured by their government rescuers. It is a must-read for those seeking solutions to this national crisis.” —Robert L. Woodson, Sr., civil rights leader and president of the Woodson Center “Everyone interested in child welfare should grapple with Naomi Riley’s powerful evidence that the current system ill-serves the safety and well-being of vulnerable kids.” —Walter Olson, senior fellow, Cato Institute, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies

Author : Aurora Brooks
Publisher : BabyDreamers.net
ISBN 13 : 1776981456
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breaking Down Barriers: The Power of Transracial Adoption written by Aurora Brooks and published by BabyDreamers.net. This book was released on 101-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking Down Barriers: The Power of Transracial Adoption is a comprehensive guide that explores the history, benefits, challenges, and controversies surrounding transracial adoption. This short read book delves into the complexities of identity formation, cultural exchange, and understanding, as well as building multicultural families. It also addresses important topics such as cultural appropriation, racial identity development, microaggressions, and discrimination. With a focus on support and resources, Breaking Down Barriers provides valuable information on transracial adoption agencies, parenting strategies, community engagement, and legal and policy considerations. It also delves into the unique aspects of international transracial adoption and the intersection of transracial adoption with foster care and race matching. Personal stories and testimonials are included to provide readers with real-life experiences, challenges, triumphs, and lessons learned from individuals who have gone through the transracial adoption process. These stories offer a glimpse into the emotional journey of both adoptive parents and adoptees, highlighting the importance of understanding and empathy. The book also explores the future of transracial adoption, emphasizing the need for continued advocacy, research, education, and policy reforms. It aims to address frequently asked questions and invites readers to share their own questions and comments, fostering a sense of community and dialogue. Breaking Down Barriers: The Power of Transracial Adoption is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the complexities and nuances of transracial adoption. Whether you are considering transracial adoption, are already a transracial adoptive parent, or simply want to broaden your knowledge on the subject, this book provides a wealth of information and insights. As a bonus, readers will receive a free copy of How To Be A Super Mom, a guide filled with practical tips and advice for busy moms. This additional resource complements the themes explored in Breaking Down Barriers, offering support and inspiration for all mothers, regardless of their adoption journey. Don't miss out on this opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of transracial adoption and receive a valuable resource for super moms. Order your copy of Breaking Down Barriers: The Power of Transracial Adoption today! This title is a short read. A Short Read is a type of book that is designed to be read in one quick sitting. These no fluff books are perfect for people who want an overview about a subject in a short period of time. Table of Contents Breaking Down Barriers: The Power of Transracial Adoption History of Transracial Adoption Benefits of Transracial Adoption Identity Formation Cultural Exchange and Understanding Building Multicultural Families Challenges and Controversies Cultural Appropriation Racial Identity Development Microaggressions and Discrimination Support and Resources Transracial Adoption Agencies Parenting Strategies Community Engagement Legal and Policy Considerations International Transracial Adoption Transracial Adoption and Foster Care Transracial Adoption and Race Matching Personal Stories and Testimonials Challenges and Triumphs Lessons Learned Future of Transracial Adoption Continued Advocacy Research and Education Policy Reforms Frequently Asked Questions Have Questions / Comments?

Author : Alfredo A. Garcia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impact of Ethnic Matching in Foster Family Placements written by Alfredo A. Garcia and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fiona Peters
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137541849
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fostering Mixed Race Children written by Fiona Peters and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-13 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ‘mixed race’ classification is known to be a factor of disadvantage in children’s social care and this fastest growing population is more likely than any other ethnic group to experience care admission. How does knowledge of ‘mixedness’ underpin policy and practice? How, when and why is the classification ‘mixed’ a disadvantage? Through narrative interviews with children currently in foster care, Fostering Mixed Race Children examines the impact of care processes on children’s everyday experiences. Peters shows how the ‘mixed race’ classification affects care admission, including both short and long term fostering and care leaving, and shapes the experiences of children in often adverse ways. The book moves away from the psychologising of ‘mixedness’ towards a much-needed sociological analysis of ‘mixedness’ and ‘mixing’ at the intersection of foster care processes. This book will be of interest to academics and practitioners working with families and children. Peters presents a child-centred narrative focus and offers unique insights into a complex area.

Author : Alan J. Dettlaff
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030543145
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System written by Alan J. Dettlaff and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines existing research documenting racial disproportionality and disparities in child welfare systems, the underlying factors that contribute to these phenomena and the harms that result at both the individual and community levels. It reviews multiple forms of interventions designed to prevent and reduce disproportionality, particularly in states and jurisdictions that have seen meaningful change. With contributions from authorities and leaders in the field, this volume serves as the authoritative volume on the complex issue of child maltreatment and child welfare. It offers a central source of information for students and practitioners who are seeking understanding on how structural and institutional racism can be addressed in public systems.

Author : Ian Sinclair
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781846421372
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fostering Now written by Ian Sinclair and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2005-05-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * What are the consequences of fostering for children, their carers and their birth families? * What are the best ways of recruiting, retaining and supporting foster carers? * What are the most important elements of a successful placement? * Can foster care offer a permanent alternative to care at home? Fostering Now brings together authoritative research on foster care in the UK. It provides a succinct overview of a wide range of research projects and highlights the main implications for policymakers and all professionals involved in the fostering process. Drawing on the varied experiences and views of foster children, social workers, foster carers and parents, this book looks at how placement outcomes are influenced by factors such as foster carers' parenting styles, contact with the child's own parents, and the child's gender, ethnicity, age and physical and emotional health. Other important areas examined include care given by relatives, the effects of foster care on education, and what happens to foster children when they return home. Fostering Now identifies the most significant challenges currently faced by foster care and draws out the key messages for policy and practice. It offers important insights into the state of foster care today, and suggests how it can be improved in future. This book is essential reading for social workers, policy makers, academics and foster carers.

Author : John Gabriel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134867751
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Racism, Culture, Markets written by John Gabriel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Racism, Culture, Markets explores the connections between cultural representations of `race' and their historical, institutional and global forms of expression and impact. John Gabriel examines the current fixation with market place philosophies in terms of the crisis in anti-racist politics and concern over questions of cultural identity. He explores issues such as the continuing relevance of terms like `black' as a basis for self definition; the need to think about identities in more fluid and complex ways, and the need to develop a much more explicit discussion of the construction of whiteness and white identities. Racism, Culture, Markets brings together a range of historical and contemporary case studies including the Rushdie affair; the Gulf War; debates around fostering, adoption and domestic violence; separate schooling; the service economy and its employment practices; tourism in the Third World; the Bhopal chemical disaster and racism in the new Europe. His case studies also consider the role played by contemporary media and popular culture in these debates, including film, television, music and the press.

Author : Derek Kirton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 'Race', Ethnicity and Adoption written by Derek Kirton and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This important study provides a unique and comprehensive analysis of research into the development of adoption policy and practice regarding black and minority ethnic children in the care of local authorities...I found this book intellectually stimulating and often provocative - it does not make comfortable reading but in the final analysis the case for retaining a commitment to placing children in families which reflect their ethnicity is strongly made." - Felicity Collier, the Director of British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering. * What are the needs of adopted minority ethnic children? * To what extent can white families meet these needs? * Should the emphasis on ethnic matching of children and families in adoption be relaxed? This book reviews the long running and often fierce controversy surrounding the adoption of black and minority ethnic children, either transracially into white families or into matched 'same race' placements. Through analysis of research and the writings of protagonists, the core concepts - namely the nature and salience of racial/ethnic identity, cultural heritage and dealing with racism - are explored and located within broader debates on 'race' and the family. The history of the controversy is set out in terms of the competing paradigms offered by liberalism and black radicalism, and more recent 'post-structuralist' influences. The author argues the need to see adoption (and especially that of black children) as inherently political and contested. While broadly supporting the case for 'same race' adoption, it is suggested that this must rest on acknowledgement of, and engagement with, social and psychological complexities, rather than their suppression beneath doctrinaire formulae. 'Race', Ethnicity and Adoption sets the issues in the wider context of a multiracial society and its politics, and will be of particular interest to social workers and child care professionals, but will also appeal more widely to students of sociology, and social and public policy.

Author : Carlos E. Cortés
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1452276269
Total Pages : 2475 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multicultural America written by Carlos E. Cortés and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 2475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive title is among the first to extensively use newly released 2010 U.S. Census data to examine multiculturalism today and tomorrow in America. This distinction is important considering the following NPR report by Eyder Peralta: “Based on the first national numbers released by the Census Bureau, the AP reports that minorities account for 90 percent of the total U.S. growth since 2000, due to immigration and higher birth rates for Latinos.” According to John Logan, a Brown University sociologist who has analyzed most of the census figures, “The futures of most metropolitan areas in the country are contingent on how attractive they are to Hispanic and Asian populations.” Both non-Hispanic whites and blacks are getting older as a group. “These groups are tending to fade out,” he added. Another demographer, William H. Frey with the Brookings Institution, told The Washington Post that this has been a pivotal decade. “We’re pivoting from a white-black-dominated American population to one that is multiracial and multicultural.” Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia explores this pivotal moment and its ramifications with more than 900 signed entries not just providing a compilation of specific ethnic groups and their histories but also covering the full spectrum of issues flowing from the increasingly multicultural canvas that is America today. Pedagogical elements include an introduction, a thematic reader’s guide, a chronology of multicultural milestones, a glossary, a resource guide to key books, journals, and Internet sites, and an appendix of 2010 U.S. Census Data. Finally, the electronic version will be the only reference work on this topic to augment written entries with multimedia for today’s students, with 100 videos (with transcripts) from Getty Images and Video Vault, the Agence France Press, and Sky News, as reviewed by the media librarian of the Rutgers University Libraries, working in concert with the title’s editors.