NEW YORK, April 21 (Xinhua) -- The United States has a child welfare system that investigates a large number of Black families and removes one out of 10 Black children from their home to be placed in foster care, the Time magazine on Wednesday quoted a scholar as saying. "Black children...
Family instability is a key dimension of social inequality in the United States. Child maltreatment is one context in which changes to a child's care and living arrangements, introduced when a child is placed in foster care, could actively improve a child's wellbeing. In this study, I analy...
current proposals to change the financing structure for foster care services and then discusses strategies that are more likely to ensure that the foster care system effectively serves children, guaranteeing their safety and well-being, and assuring that permanency is achieved for each child in care....
Julia Lurie, conducted into one of the country’s largest for-profit psychiatric hospital chains, Universal Health Services (UHS), finding shocking abuse of foster care children. The results of Lurie’s compelling ...
He began writing letters of advice to his illegitimate son Philip Stanhope when the child was only five years old. When he had reached twenty-five, another Philip Stanhope (of Mansfield Woodhouse) was born. This was Chesterfields godson and successor, whose education he undertook, and to whom...
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His surname encapsulates a brand that Stan has grown up with his entire life. When he was a child, his father owned a single store where Stan began working part time at eight-years-old. "It was always a part of our life but the changes were very incremental," he remembers. "I'm no...
COVID-19 has impacted all of our lives, but as school work shifted to virtual and child care facilities closed, the transition has been keenly felt by parents. "I had to adjust to what had changed in my role while I was out, as well as figuring out how to be a first-time mother,...
Julia and Simca are two young friends who agree that you can never use too much butter – and that it is best to be a child forever. Sharing a love of cooking and having no wish to turn into big, busy people who worry too much and dawdle too little, they decide to create a feast...