The purpose of this Policy Analysis was to use the Family Impact Theory to investigate whether the Adoption and Safe Family Act (P. L. 105-89) is effective in supporting both children and parents. The research question for this policy analysis paper w . . .

The purpose of this study is to explore the perspectives of African American adults who are adopted in regards to their experiences growing up in K-12 schools. In order to explore these experiences, willing participants were interviewed about their ad . . .

The current study sought to investigate the relationship between 1) gender and bias towards lesbian and gay couples adopting, 2) gender and bias towards gay couples adopting a boy or a girl, and 3) gender and bias towards lesbian couples adopting a bo . . .

The purpose of this project is to identify and create needed information and training material on the concurrent planning process in foster care taking place through Child Welfare Services in Humboldt County. Participants were professionals currently . . .

Social work practice is often focused on the delivery of services by agencies that may be disconnected from the communities they serve, and not on strategies to educate and empower those communities to provide those services to themselves. By understa . . .

Over the last two decades there has been a significant increase in the amount of children in our child welfare system (Schwartz, 2007). This increase has led to an increase in the amount of children in kinship care. According to several studies kinshi . . .

This study examined the content of various sources, including books, movies, scholarly journal articles, and periodicals at an attempt to answer the question of whether China’s one child policy is harming or benefitting the countries children. In cond . . .

The purpose of this study to identify service utilization, desire of services and helpfulness associated with adoption dissolution that exist in families who adopt children from foster care. This may lead to suggestions of ways community and child wel . . .