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Font, Sarah A.; Gershoff, Elizabeth T. – Society for Research in Child Development, 2020
Foster care provides round-the-clock substitute care for nearly 700,000 U.S. children who are temporarily or permanently separated from their family of origin each year. Each state manages its own foster care system according to federal regulations. Despite numerous large-scale federal policy reforms over the past several decades, substantial…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Child Abuse, Public Policy, Child Rearing
US Department of Health and Human Services, 2008
"Child Welfare Outcomes 2002-2005: Report to Congress" (Child Welfare Outcomes Report) is the seventh in a series of annual reports from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (the Department). The reports are developed in accordance with section 479A of the Social Security Act (as amended by the Adoption and Safe Families Act…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Annual Reports, Child Abuse, Incidence