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It includes educational, legal, nursing, medical, psychological, and social work perspectives and principles, and practice for team development.

Chapter 1 discusses the history of multidisciplinary teams in child welfare services.

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This reference offers a comprehensive overview of public policies and programs related to child care in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Oceania, Europe, and North America.

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This important new source provides greater insight into and awareness of housing experiences in other societies, allowing for a more informed assessment of our own national experiences and priorities.

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Ben-Arieh and Gal draw together a collection of original essays by leading researchers on issues of major importance to all welfare states, alongside a special focus on developments in the Israeli welfare state.

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This book explores the sources of the problems in the child welfare system, places those problems in their historical, legal, and policy perspectives, and explores the implications of policies for state and national levels.

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Analyzing federal involvement in residential segregation, this book examines how the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) attempted to forge elementary changes in segregated residential patterns by opening up the suburbs to groups historically excluded for racial or economic reasons.

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This book provides an examination of contraceptive social marketing. It includes a description of these programs, documenting a form of international assistance that has attracted over $1 billion from governments and other donors.

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How much responsibility for providing health care to the poor should be devolved from the federal government to the states Any answer to this critical policy question requires a careful assessment of the Medicaid program.

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"Beyond childcare theories and early childhood gurus, here is how children have actually been raised in America over the last four centuries. From wet nurses and Southern mammys, settlement houses and"

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Drawing on decades of research, the author demostrates how morality emerges naturally in the context of children's everyday social interaction as they form caring attachments and judgments about fairness.

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This compendium provides an orientation to basic issues of child and family policy. Examinations of the federal Baby Doe regulations and AIDS education policy in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, public schools highlight policy implementation.

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This compendium provides an orientation to basic issues of child and family policy. Examinations of the federal Baby Doe regulations and AIDS education policy in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, public schools highlight policy implementation.

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In the United States, long considered the land of opportunity, children born into different types of families begin life with very unequal prospects. A growing group of children is being raised in families in which a poorly educated mother begins childbearing at an early age, often outside marriage, and ends up dependent on public welfare.

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In recent years there has been a growing trend towards increased communication among members of the adoption triad. This unique study investigates the consequences of openness in adoption, as practiced by several adoption agencies.

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This overview of various national policies and programs is intended for students and scholars, policymakers and public administrators dealing with fundamental problems in homeownership and control.

Ownership and control has long been a central theme in the heated public debates in different countries over housing policy.

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This in-depth exploration uses individual portraits to show what parents face as they love and care for their mentally ill children and cope with how the mental health system has failed them.

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Since the Garden of Eden, humanity has been concerned with shelter. Yet housing means different things to different people. This is a historical reference guide that reviews housing concepts and issues. It covers current literature in housing from a multidisciplinary perspective.

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A hard hitting look at our troubled society, the intergenerational cycle of crime and criminal families and the women who have the power to change things for the better - if we let them.

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Subsequent chapters discuss issues in the failure to report child abuse, the regulation of professional misconduct, the role of professional organizations in protecting the child, sexual abuse in child care, lawsuits and disciplinary proceedings, and strategies for organizations in the protection of children.

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The U.S. Constitution calls on the government to ""promote the general welfare."" In this provocative and innovative book, a distinguished roster of political scientists and economists evaluates its ability to carry out this task.