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Tables of Contents for Does Family Preservation Serve a Child's Best Interests?
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Tables
vii
Authors' Biographies
ix
Series Editor's Preface
xi
Rita J. Simon
Part One
Family Preservation's Essential Services in the New Millennium:
Ruth McRoy
Introduction
3
11
Overview of Family Preservation
14
9
Empirical Support for Family Preservation and Kinship Care, with Cinda L. Christian and Elizabeth E. Thompson
23
18
Adoption Challenges
41
9
Family Preservation in the New Millennium
50
9
Part Two
Family Preservation/Adoption: Misplaced Hope versus What Works:
Howard Alstein
Family Preservation: What Does the Research Say?
59
20
Kinship Care
79
8
Impact on Child Welfare of the Multiethnic Placement and Adoption and Safe Families Acts
87
10
Transracial Adoption
97
36
Part Three
Responses
Commentary
115
6
Ruth McRoy
Response to McRoy
121
6
Howard Alstein
Response to Altstein
127
6
Ruth McRoy
Bibliography
133
18
Index
151