The Best Interests of the Child: The Least Detrimental Alternative

by Joseph Goldstein, Anna Freud, Albert J. Solnit, et al.

Book Overview

In The Best Interests of the Child, published between 1973 and 1986, the authors speak in one voice in concluding that the continuity of care - continuity of a child's relationship with his or her adult caregiver - is a universal essential to the child's well-being.

The authors stress that minimizing intrusions by the law is paramount to safeguarding the child's growth and development. The least detrimental alternative - the authors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684835460
• ISBN13: 9780684835464
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Provides a good framework to help sort out issues of what is really "best" for children.

This book should be mandatory reading for all those who aspire to be advocates for children- anyone in the family court system (judges, lawyers, guardian ad litems), legislators and most especially workers in the child protection services.

Three "...Best Interests of the Child" volumes in one book

Very comprehensive, well written, includes all three volumes-Before the Best Interests and Beyond the Best Interests in this one volume.