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Madden, Robert G. – Child Welfare, 1993
Reviews recent case law and state statutes for dealing with a pregnant woman's actions which negatively affect her infant. Explains how statutes and case law are applied in civil law to remove a child from the mother at birth and in criminal law to punish a mother while pregnant. (MM)
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Civil Law, Criminal Law, Mothers
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Franck, Ellen J. – Child Welfare, 1996
Examines the conflicting views in the literature on the effects of prenatal exposure to drugs and reports on an early intervention project in a New York City agency. The rate of developmental delay was found to be virtually the same for children with and without prenatal exposure to drugs. (TJQ)
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Delays, Early Intervention, Foster Care
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Burry, Caroline Long; Wright, Lois – Child Welfare, 2006
Permanency planning for infants with prenatal substance exposure is challenging due to characteristics of the infants and the ongoing substance use or relapse of the parents. Visitation is a primary mechanism through which child welfare workers determine and support permanency planning. Productive use of visitation for permanency planning for…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Welfare, Prenatal Influences, Drug Use