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Informationen zum Autor Duncan Lindsey is a Professor in the UCLA School of Public Affairs. The recipient of the ProHumanitate medal, he also serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Children and Youth Services Review. Klappentext According to the United Nations' latest data, the United States has more children living in poverty than any other industrialized nation in the world. More than a fifth of all children grow up in poverty. The poverty rates for African-American and Latino children often exceeds 40 percent.Furthermore, the United States--a country that once pioneered strategies to prevent child abuse and that now spends more money fighting child abuse than any other industrialized country--also has the highest rate of child abuse in the industrialized world. Against this background, Duncan Lindsey, a leading authority on child welfare, takes a critical look at the current welfare system. He traces the transformation of child welfare into child protective services, arguing that the current focus on abuse has produced a system that is designed to protectchildren from physical and sexual abuse and therefore functions as a last resort for only the worst and most dramatic cases in child welfare. In a close analysis of the process of investigating child abuse, Lindsey finds that there is no evidence that the transformation into protective services hasreduced child abuse fatalities or provided a safer environment for children. He makes a compelling argument for the criminal justice system to assume responsibility for the problem of child abuse in order for the child welfare system to be able to adequately address the well-being of a much largernumber of children now growing up in poverty. This new edition of The Welfare of Children takes into account a major legislative change since the publication of the first edition: the welfare reform legislation of 1996. This legislation hasfundamentally altered the public child welfare system as broadly understood, and Lindsey thoroughlyexamines its implications on policy and practice, refuting the claim that welfare reform has actually reduced child poverty. The Welfare of Children, 2nd Edition is a compassionat Zusammenfassung Duncan Linsey takes a critical look at the current child welfare system and makes a compelling argument for the criminal justice system to assume responsibility for the problem of child abuse in order for the child welfare system to address the well-being of a much larger number of children now growing up in poverty. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. The Child Welfare System 1: Emergence of the Modern Child Welfare System 2: Child Welfare Research: The Effectiveness of Casework 3: Child Welfare Reform through Demonstration Research: Permanency Planning 4: The Changing Portrait of the American Family 5: The End of Child Welfare: The Transformation of Child Welfare into Children's Protective Services 6: The Decision to Remove a Child 7: Dealing with Child Abuse, the Red Herring of Child Welfare Part II. Ending Child Poverty 8: Wealth and Poverty in America: The Economic Condition of Children 9: The Rise and Fall of Welfare for Disadvantaged Children in America 10: The Fading Promise of Welfare Reform to End Child Poverty 11: Two Simple Programs for Ending Child Poverty 12: Child Future Savings Account: Social Security for Children Closing Bibliography Author Index Subject Index ...
