The Intersection of Race, Poverty, and Risk: Understanding the Decision to Provide Services to Clients and to Remove Children

Autor/inn/en	Rivaux, Stephanie L.; James, Joyce; Wittenstrom, Kim; Baumann, Donald; Sheets, Janess; Henry, Judith; Jeffries, Victoria
Titel	The Intersection of Race, Poverty, and Risk: Understanding the Decision to Provide Services to Clients and to Remove Children
Quelle	In: Child Welfare, 87 (2008) 2, S.151-168 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-4021
Schlagwörter	Race; Poverty; Parent Child Relationship; Foster Care; Child Welfare; Risk; Decision Making; African Americans; Placement; Child Abuse; Child Neglect + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rasse; Abstammung; Armut; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Pflegehilfe; Kindeswohl; Risiko; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Afroamerikaner; Betriebspraktikum; Praktikum; Abuse of children; Abuse; Child; Children; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Kind; Kinder; Kindesvernachlässigung
Abstract	Studies have found that certain racial groups, particularly the children of African American families, are placed in foster care at a higher rate than children of other races. These families are also sometimes found to be afforded fewer services that might prevent these removals, relative to families of other races. It is unclear why this is so. Poverty has been suspected, and sometimes found, to be the primary cause of the disparity. Lacking in some of these analyses, however, was how risk of future abuse/neglect to the child entered into the decisions and particularly, how assumptions about race, poverty, and risk are factored into the decision-making process. It is important to understand this process if we are to find a way to correct it. The current study addresses this process. (Contains 2 figures, 1 table and 6 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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