Child Demographics CHILD WELFARE IN REVIEW Financial Status of Children in Welfare - a review conducted in 9 trials on 2,000 participants to determine if financial support to poor families would improve children's health and welfare did not yield sufficient evidence on the financial benefits of intervention (Lucas, 2008)
They, however, seek the additional finances from the private sector, which has been greatly benefiting from them. Effects of Foster Care -- A comparative study of 3 groups of displaced children showed that those placed in foster care exhibited high levels of behavior problems after their release (Lawrence, 2006)
These studies suggest that children's conditions can improve by varying the type of care in connection with maltreatment history, baseline adaptation and socioeconomic status. The Most Affected by Domestic Abuse -- a survey of 265 women showed that 63% of them experienced violence as housewives and represented the most affected by domestic violence (Manoudi et al
A study on the effectiveness of recent reforms on the chronic problems of the child welfare system in the United States (Westat 2002) found that fiscal reforms did not necessarily produce desirable outcomes nor did fiscal changes eliminate chronic problems in child welfare (Westat). A survey conducted on the child welfare nonprofits in New York, however, showed that the basic problem they encountered was not the lack of skill in managing finances (Marwell et al
Family problems were the most important cause, requests for money and imposed sexual relations foremost among these. The second study reveals the effect of domestic violence on children inter-generationally (Volpe, 2012)
A study on the language outcomes of 174 young children on foster care showed that age had a lot to do with language development. A child placed at 15 months normally develops expressive and receptive language comparable to other children between 30 and 42 months (Windsor et al
Goals of the policy The Indian Child Welfare Act intends to curb the historical practice of removing Indian children from their family and tribe and putting them in non-Indian institutions and families. The stated goal of the policy sought to safeguard the best interest of Indian children and support the security and stability of the Indian tribes (Connors, 2011)
II. Rates of state foster care placements of Indian children will be evaluated to establish whether the rate has decreased (Lorie, 2001)
Such a dramatic rate of removing Indian children from their homes would threaten tribal survival. Congress was the first institution to recognize this, and it developed an interest in tribal stability (MacEachron et al
Tribes of the North Dakota too have been influential in the garnering support and evidence necessary for reforming the decision-making process relating to placement of Indian children. Congress representative, Morris Udall of Arizona, lobbied the then president, Jimmy Carter to endorse the bill (Tebben, 2006)
Child Welfare Since its founding in 1921, the Child Welfare League of America has been instrumental in adoption, child placement, and general child welfare services. The organization has been called "one of the most important players in the history of adoption regulation" in the nation's history and has therefore had a huge impact on domestic policy related to child welfare and adoption ("Child Welfare League of America," 2012)