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Peer reviewedSchene, Patricia A. – Future of Children, 1998
The history of child protection in the United States is marked by an unresolved tension between rescuing young children from abusive homes and strengthening the care their families can provide. The structure of the typical child protective effort is described against this backdrop. Deciding when intervention is necessary and mobilizing community…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Community Involvement, Community Services
Peer reviewedLarner, Mary B.; Stevenson, Carol S.; Behrman, Richard E. – Future of Children, 1998
Analyzes the challenges, pressures, and uncertainties facing the public child protection systems with recommendations for strengthening child protective services agencies and expanding prevention and treatment resources. Articles in this special issue place typical agency practices in a historical context as they consider dimensions of the child…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Child Welfare, Childhood Needs
Peer reviewedWaldfogel, Jane – Future of Children, 1998
Reviews proposals to reform the system by which public agencies receive and respond to reports of abuse and neglect, highlighting and describing one reform approach. The community-based partnership for child protection emphasizes targeting interventions by child protective services toward high-risk families while building collaborative community…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, At Risk Persons, Child Abuse, Child Neglect
