Protecting children from abuse and neglect
By: [editor, Mary B. Larner].
Contributors: Larner, Mary, 1949-; Center for the Future of Children.; David & Lucile Packard Foundation.
Series: Future of children -- v. 8, no. 1.
Publisher: Center for the Future of Children, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Los Altos, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
Subjects: Child abuse -- United States -- Prevention; Abused children -- Services for -- United States; Child welfare -- United States
Notes: Cover title.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Protecting children from abuse and neglect : analysis and recommendations / Mary B. Larner, Carol S. Stevenson, Richard E. Behrman; title: Past, present and future roles of child protective services / Patricia A. Schene; title: Extent and consequesces of child maltreatment / Diana J. English; title: Family-centered services : approaches and effectiveness / Jacquelyn McCroskey, William Meezan; title: When children cannot remain home : foster family care and kinship care / Jill Duerr Berrick; title: Costs of child protection in the context of welfare reform / Mark E. Courtney; title: Rethinking the paradigm for child protection / Jane Waldfogel; title: Four commentaries : how we can better protect children from abuse and neglect / Douglas J. Besharov, Marcia Robinson Lowry, Leroy H. Pelton, Michael W. Weber; title: Child indicators : dental health / Eugene M. Lewit, Nancy Kerrebrock.