Adoption and the Care of Children by TBD
Brand: London Publishing Partnership - IPSUK
Product Description
Adoption is out of favour. Numbers have fallen dramatically and baby adoptions have become rare events. Recent trends in family law make it increasingly unlikely that children will ever be declared free to be adopted while wouldbe adopters are discouraged by a series of obstacles and abjections. Consequently children who are unable to live with their natural parents are likely to spend long periods possibly their entire childhoods in care. This can entail years of toing and froing between childrens homes foster parents and repeated attempts to reunite them with neglectful and often abusive parents. The results for the children concerned are extremely poor and all the evidence suggests that the state makes a very bad substitute parent. Children who have spent time in care are more prone to psychiatric disorders they suffer in terms of education and health and they often graduate from the system to homelessness unemployment and prison. The results for adopted children on the other hand are extremely good. They do well by all measures. When they experience problems these often relate to their early childhood trauma at the hands of their natural parents or to long periods spent in care prior to adoption. In this book Patricia Morgan argues that childcare legislation and practice should be reorganised so that adoption becomes the first not the last option for children who cannot live with their parents. A child welfare system for the twentyfirst century should be built around finding a permanent home for every child. show more
Condition : New
Author : TBD
Weight : 422.09
Publisher : London Publishing Partnership IPSUK
Language : English
EAN : 9780255364348
ISBN10 : 0255364342
Format : Paperback Softback
Date of Publication : 20000101
Place of Publication : United Kingdom
Pagination : 210 Pages
Dimensions : 210 X 149 X 20