Attorney Perspectives of Child Protective Services “Legal Kidnapping”

Daniel Pollack - Yeshiva Academic Institutional Repository

For this legal note, four experienced attorneys who have litigated many child protection cases were asked about the alleged overreaching that US Child Protective Services (CPS) effectuates by improperly removing a child from its parent(s), seemingly without sufficient cause.

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Health needs of refugee children identified on arrival in reception countries: a systematic review and metaanalysis

Albertine Baauw, Joana Kist-van Holthe, Bridget Slattery, Martijn Heymans, Mai Chinapaw, Hans van Goudoever - BMJ Paediatrics Open

The authors of this article aimed to perform a systematic review of the literature to describe the health status of refugee children on entering reception countries in Europe.

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Young Children in Institutional Care: Characteristics of Institutions, Children’s Development, and Interventions in Institutions

Megan M. Julian, Junlei Li, Annie Wright, Pamela A. Jimenez-Etcheverria - Children’s Social Worlds in Cultural Context

In this article, institutions in Russia, China, Ghana, and Chile are described with reference to the circumstances that lead to children’s institutionalization, resident children’s social-emotional relationships, and unique characteristics of each country’s institutional care (e.g., volunteer tourism in Ghana, and shifting demographics of institutionalized children in China).

Is Poverty Eroding Parental Rights in Britain? The Case of Child Protection in the Early Twenty-First Century

Alicia-Dorothy Mornington & Alexandrine Guyard-Nedelec - Philosophy and Child Poverty

This chapter argues that poverty per se should never constitute the basis for removing children from their parents and seeks to understand the British situation, in order to see how poverty is treated in relation to child welfare in Britain.

The Interface of Child Welfare and Parental Criminal Justice Involvement: Policy and Practice Implications for the Children of Incarcerated Parents

Benjamin de Haan, Joseph A. Mienko, J. Mark Eddy - Handbook on Children with Incarcerated Parents

This article presents the perspectives of three authors - who have collective experience in administration, practice, and research in both systems - on the interaction between the adult corrections system and the child welfare system in the USA and the implications of this interaction for children with incarcerated parents.

Improving decision-making agreement in child protection cases by using information regarding parents' response to an intervention: A vignette study

Sabinevan der Asdonk, et al - Children and Youth Services Review

This study investigated whether information regarding parents' response to an attachment-based intervention impacted placement decisions and agreement among decision makers.