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For decades, child protection systems have striven to provide responsive services to vulnerable children and families in the face of the constant change and instability caused by the bureaucratization of child protection. This book lends a strident voice to the argument for a shift beyond the current risk paradigm, towards genuine cultural change.

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Looks at the demand and availability of child care and early childhood education and how major political parties have failed to take a comprehensive approach to development policy. Asking the question what would a good system of early childhood education and care look like in Australia

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National Library of New Zealand Cataloguing in Publication (CiP) record.

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A compendium of organic architecture past and present; a how-to book that includes over 1,250 illustrations; and a Whole Earth Catalog - type sourcebook for living in harmony with the earth.

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Regardless of your income, Adoption Assistance can show you how to adopt a IV-E eligible baby, child, or siblings with special needs at low or no cost. Learn how to navigate the state adoption bureaucracy and how to advocate for financial programs that make raising the children affordable.

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This annotated bibliography covers the literature published since 1900 suitable for children and young adults dealing with adoption. The 503 titles are divided into fiction and non-fiction by reading level and include bibliographic information, pagination, and OCLC number.

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With contributions from researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and advocates in adoption policy and practice, this volume covers topics including: adoption advocacy; race and adoption; placement of older and disabled children; adoption disruption; and federal adoption subsidies.

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This book sets the record straight about the nation's welfare programs, showing that the gloom and doom surrounding public discussion stem from false ideas about what these programs are and how they work.

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' ... everyone should read this book and experience the reality of how some of our children are raised. Our children are our future - give them one, as this author has.

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According to conventional wisdom, American social policy has always been exceptional - exceptionally stingy and backwards. This title explains why the country's leading role was short-lived. It shows that the New Deal was in fact a bold program of relief, committed to providing jobs and income support for the unemployed.

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This book discusses peer group programs and long range community efforts to rehabilitate street youth, gang members, and other youth who have low self-esteem, come from dysfunctional families, and are failures in school and society in general.

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Examines the effects of rising social security costs and of measures adopted to deal with them, and discusses possible ways of coping with the shortfall of available money for the aging American population.

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This work is a guide to theory and practice needed by child care workers, and should serve as an aid to their "direct work" with children. It focuses particularly on the use of "third objects" - such as paint, computers and music - in therapy and counselling of vulnerable children.

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This study applies rights-based alternative-care theory and practice for orphans to Chinas child-welfare system, including its history and development in urban and rural areas. It analyses state child-welfare institutions; de-institutionalization; foster-mother villages; and current policy changes toward a mixed welfare approach.

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Social security systems throughout the world are faced with unprecedented challenges in response to growing criticisms about unacceptable expenditures for government programs and questions about the appropriate role of government in providing social protection through social insurance and social assistance programs.

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Day care was originally conceived by Soviet educators as a vehicle for fostering the roots of collectivism, patriotism, and love of work in children.

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Addresses the tendency for children to be regarded as problems to be solved.

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An approach for professionals helping children deal with foster care placement and adoption.

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Images of disabled children are found throughout well-known works of literature, film, and even opera. Their characters range from sweet, to brave, to tragic. Disabled children are also a part of reality as poster girls and boys for drives and causes. This work demonstrates the critical role of disability with respect to the history of childhood.

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The book promotes better integration of theory, practice, policy, and research in working with clients who are members of the adoption triad: adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive families.

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The book promotes better integration of theory, practice, policy, and research in working with clients who are members of the adoption triad: adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive families.