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...
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,...
As they embark on their northern journey, the child repeatedly asks his grandfather, “Is this your trapline?” Along the way, the boy finds himself imagining what life was like two generations ago – a life that appears to be both different from and similar to his life now. This is a...
You can choose adoption in the weeks, months, and in some cases, years after returning home. If you need help now, you can call 1-800-ADOPTION for free support. Because there is nomaximum age to give a child up for adoption, you shouldn’t be deterred if you’ve decided that adopti...
allocation of social services/benefits, issuance of supportive housing, and evaluation of child abuse.6,7In biomedicine, algorithms have also exhibited racial biases: for example, in prognostic models designed from the Framingham Heart Study, and precision medicine protocols based predominantly on Europea...
In fully dedicating ourselves to the process, we found that a “dream team” and learning through experience were the keys to fulfilling our dream of having a child.By Rick & LauraOur story began like many others: we met in college, married, and made inroads in our careers. A...
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