In the US, roughly half of all foster care cases involve children from substance-abusing families. The standard child welfare service response is to protect the child from abuse or neglect by placing them in foster care and referring the substance-abusing parent for drug treatment.
New research from the state of Kansas, however, suggests that a radical rethink on services for these families could have significant benefits for outcomes and not only increase the likelihood of children being reunited with their families, but speed up the time it takes for that to happen. How? By focusing on the quality of the relationship between children and their parents, rather than on parents’ sobriety.
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