Partitioning the Adoption Process to Better Predict Permanency

Autor/inn/en	McDonald, Tom; Press, Alan; Billings, Peggy; Moore, Terry
Titel	Partitioning the Adoption Process to Better Predict Permanency
Quelle	In: Child Welfare, 86 (2007) 3, S.5-32 (28 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-4021
Schlagwörter	Adoption; Placement; Time; Predictor Variables; Child Abuse; Foster Care; Longitudinal Studies; Individual Characteristics; Family Characteristics; Children; Child Neglect; Delivery Systems; Oklahoma + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Betriebspraktikum; Praktikum; Zeit; Prädiktor; Abuse of children; Abuse; Child; Children; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Kind; Kinder; Pflegehilfe; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Kindesvernachlässigung; Auslieferung
Abstract	Under federal outcome standards established by the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, discharges to adoption are expected to occur within 24 months of the most recent removal from home for at least 32% of cases. In the research recounted here, adoption is treated as a process composed of two discrete steps: adoptive placement, and adoption finalization. It was hypothesized that the predictors of completion may differ for each step, offering direction for practice and policy. Predictors included child characteristics, maltreatment history, placement history, system variables, and service delivery variables. Children's adoption event history was viewed through five annual entry cohorts, including all children with adoption case plans, rather than the exit cohorts of the federal measure, which includes only adopted children. Over this five-year period, the length of time from removal to adoption finalization decreased significantly, primarily as a result of decreased time from adoption placement to finalization. Child and family characteristics and abuse/neglect history were found to be much more predictive in the analysis of timely adoption placement than of time from placement to finalization. These and other significant predictors suggest strategies for improving timely adoption outcomes. (Contains 2 tables, 1 figure and 4 footnotes.) (Author).
Anmerkungen	Child Welfare League of America. P.O. Box 932831, Atlanta, GA 31193-2831. Tel: 800-407-6273; Tel: 770-280-4164; e-mail: order@cwla.org; Web site: http://www.cwla.org/pubs
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10