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Peer reviewedHutchison, Elizabeth D. – Social Work, 1993
After brief history of development of mandatory reporting laws to protect children from maltreatment and evaluation of assumptions underlying use of these laws for case finding, analyzes costs and benefits of reporting laws for four stakeholders (state, professionals, families, and children) and concludes that costs of laws outweigh benefits.…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Child Welfare, Legal Responsibility
Peer reviewedJonson-Reid, Melissa; Barth, Richard P. – Social Work, 2003
Examined school-age children after leaving child welfare foster or group care. Instability in placements significantly increased risk of transition to probation foster care. Among children exiting placements, those who first entered care at ages 12-14 or were first removed because of sexual abuse or neglect were at greater risk of probation…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Welfare, Early Adolescents, Foster Care
