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Direct linkCrampton, David; Coulton, Claudia J. – Child Welfare, 2008
This article reviews how life table analysis can improve on cross-sectional analysis of disproportionality by comparing African American and Caucasian children's risk of being investigated for child maltreatment or being placed in foster care before their 10th birthday. We then highlight the application of life table results in advocacy. Newspaper…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Child Abuse, Foster Care, African American Children
McRoy, Ruth G. – Child Welfare, 2008
Child welfare is not the only system in which disparities have been identified in U.S. foster care. According to the recent Children's Defense Fund's report "America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline," racial and economic disparities exist in many systems including child welfare, health care, mental health, education, and juvenile and criminal justice.…
Descriptors: Whites, Poverty, Stress Variables, Delivery Systems
Clark, Patricia; Buchanan, Jackie; Legters, Lyman – Child Welfare, 2008
Mirroring national trends, children of color in Washington state's King County are overrepresented at every point in the child welfare system and fare worse by most measures than are Caucasian children. The King County Coalition on Racial Disproportionality was formed to reduce and ultimately eliminate racial disproportionality in the county's…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Disproportionate Representation, Counties, Racial Differences
Lavergne, Chantal; Dufour, Sarah; Trocme, Nico; Larrivee, Marie-Claude – Child Welfare, 2008
The aim of this descriptive study was to compare the report profiles of Caucasian, Aboriginal, and other visible minority children whose cases were assessed by child protective services in Canada. The results show that children of Aboriginal ancestry and from visible minority groups are selected for investigation by child protective services 1.77…
Descriptors: Asians, African American Children, Child Abuse, Minority Group Children
Peer reviewedNasuti, John P.; York, Reginald; Sandell, Karen – Child Welfare, 2004
The number of U.S. children entering foster care is increasing faster than the number of available foster parents. Of particular concern are the growing number of African American children in foster care and the lack of African American foster parents to care for them. This study compares role perceptions of African American and white foster…
Descriptors: Recruitment, Parent Role, African American Children, Foster Care
