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Peer reviewedBarth, Richard P.; And Others – Social Work Research, 1994
Used data on 496 children who had been in foster care before adoption to examine effects of child characteristics on odds that child would remain in long-term foster care and length of time for adoption agreement to be legalized. Age, history of abuse/neglect, ethnicity, and planned foster parent adoption program were major determinants of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adoption, Age Differences, Child Abuse
