The Evidence is In: Foster Care vs. Keeping Families Together: The Definitive Studies

The Evidence is In: Foster Care vs. Keeping Families Together: The Definitive Studies | National Coalition for Child Protection Reform:

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NCCPR long has argued that many children now trapped in foster care would be far better off if they had remained with their own families and those families had been given the right kinds of help.

Turns out that’s not quite right.

In fact, many children now trapped in foster care would be far better off if they remained with their own families even if those families got only the typical help (which tends to be little help, wrong help, or no help) commonly offered by child welfare agencies.

That’s the message from the largest studies ever undertaken to compare the impact on children of foster care versus keeping comparably maltreated children with their own families. The study was the subject of a front-page story in USA Today.

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