Sentences with phrase «subsequent child welfare»

After Aboriginal Protection (Amendment) Act 1940, Aboriginal children were removed under the Child Welfare Act 1939 and subsequent child welfare legislation.

Aboriginal children's institutions deemed to be depots under the Child Welfare Act 1939 and subsequent child welfare legislation.

Indeed, during the 1970s, child welfare services were specifically targeted at two types of children — those without extraordinary behavior problems who needed protection from parental abuse and those with extraordinary behavior problems whose parents often needed the assistance of treatment or placement services.27 Although the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 and subsequent child welfare legislation made federal funding for child welfare services contingent on parental incapacity or abuse, many children continue to enter care because of behavior problems.

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Social and emotional problems in young children can be traced to mothers» prenatal health, 1,2 parents» caregiving3, 4 and their life - course (such as the timing of subsequent pregnancies, employment, welfare dependence).5, 6 Home visiting programs that address these antecedent risks and protective factors may reduce social and emotional problems in children.

Proper guidance needed for families affected by new welfare cuts for third and subsequent children

A fifteen - year follow - up of the Prenatal / Early Infancy Project in Elmira, New York, showed that the nurse home visits significantly reduced child abuse and neglect in participating families, as well as arrest rates for the children and mothers.35 The women who received the program also spent much less time on welfare; those who were poor and unmarried had significantly fewer subsequent births.

A subgroup analysis of high risk women who were unmarried and from low SES households (40 %) showed that home visits reduced the number of subsequent births (mean difference [MD] 0.5, p = 0.02), months that women received welfare (MD 29.9, p = 0.005), reports of behavioural impairment due to substance abuse (incidence 0.41 v 0.73, p = 0.005), records of arrests (incidence 0.16 v 0.90, p < 0.001), convictions (incidence 0.13 v 0.69, p < 0.001), and verified reports of child abuse and neglect involving the mother as perpetrator (incidence 0.11 v 0.53, p < 0.01).

Mothers» self reports of subsequent births, substance abuse, and use of welfare; records of mothers» arrests and convictions; and verified reports of child abuse or neglect.

-- This program of prenatal and early childhood home visitation by nurses can reduce the number of subsequent pregnancies, the use of welfare, child abuse and neglect, and criminal behavior on the part of low - income, unmarried mothers for up to 15 years after the birth of the first child.

This and a subsequent review4 that focused specifically on adolescents, were carried out as part of the MDRC Next Generation project, an interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers from several organizations who reviewed the research on the impact of the welfare legislation on children.

The effect of home visiting programs on mothers» life - course (subsequent pregnancies, education, employment, and use of welfare) is disappointing overall.10 In the trial of the nurse home visitor program described above, there were enduring effects of the program 15 years after birth of the first child on maternal life - course outcomes (e.g., interpregnancy intervals, use of welfare, behavioural problems due to women's use of drugs and alcohol, and arrests among women who were low - income and unmarried at registration).21 The effects of this program on maternal life - course have been replicated in separate trials with urban African - Americans20, 23,24 and with Hispanics.18

Social and emotional problems in young children can be traced to mothers» prenatal health, 1,2 parents» caregiving3, 4 and their life - course (such as the timing of subsequent pregnancies, employment, welfare dependence).5, 6 Home visiting programs that address these antecedent risks and protective factors may reduce social and emotional problems in children.

We estimated models by using dependent variables previously associated with significant treatment effects in the follow - up study.10, 20 These included life - course outcomes for the mother, such as number of subsequent children, months on welfare, impairments due to substance use, and number of arrests, as well as life - course outcomes for the study children, such as number of runaway episodes and number of arrests or convictions.

Visitation may be granted as a part of or subsequent to the parents» divorce, dissolution of marriage, legal separation, annulment, or child support proceeding if grandparent has an interest in welfare of child and visitation would be in child's best interest.

Outcomes consisted of women's number and timing of subsequent pregnancies, months of employment, use of welfare, food stamps, and Medicaid, educational achievement, behavioral problems attributable to the use of substances, rates of marriage and cohabitation, and duration of relationships with partners and their children's behavior problems, responses to story stems, intellectual functioning, receptive language, and academic achievement.

A report from the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council15 stated that these needs could be addressed through regularized referrals from the child welfare system to the early intervention system for children with developmental delays or disabilities; subsequent federal reauthorizations of the Keeping Children and Families Safe Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (Part C) both included requirements for establishing such lchildren with developmental delays or disabilities; subsequent federal reauthorizations of the Keeping Children and Families Safe Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (Part C) both included requirements for establishing such lChildren and Families Safe Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (Part C) both included requirements for establishing such linkages.

Results indicated that children in EHS had significantly fewer child welfare encounters between the ages of five and nine years than did children in the control group, and that EHS slowed the rate of subsequent encounters.

I argued then that the misdiagnosing and subsequent counterproductive treatment of the disorder was the single biggest issue confounding the child welfare system.