Expanding the Options in Child Placement: Israel's Dependent Children in Care from Infancy to Adulthood

by Anita Weiner

On the basis of a 14-year follow-up study of 268 infants in residential care, the authors evaluate the relative merits of adoption, foster care, return to parents or extended family. They stress the significance of the absentee parent, of social work intervention, the advantages of late adoption and make a case for a new look at residential group care as a viable alternative for dependent children in placement. This is the only study to follow up...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819175668
• ISBN13: 9780819175663
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 184 Pages