Foster care
By: Jill Hamilton, book editor.
Contributors: Hamilton, Jill.
Series: Issues that concern you
Publisher: Greenhaven Press; Thomson/Gale
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9780737727111
Subjects: Foster home care -- United States; Foster home care -- United States -- History; Foster children -- Services for -- United States; Foster parents -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-97) and index.
Table of contents: title: The history of foster care in the United States / Ellen Herman; title: Public ignorance hurts the foster care system / Mary Bissell and Rob Geen; title: Poorly trained "helping" professionals compound problems / Richard Delaney; title: Homosexuals should not be foster parents / J. Richard Pearcey; title: Foster kids have mixed feelings about gay foster parents; title: Gay parents can solve foster parent shortage / The American Civil Liberties Union of Utah; title: Foster kids need an alumni group / Bill Stanton; title: Grandparents can cure foster care problems / Gerard Wallace; title: Foster care funding needs changing / The Economist; title: Family preservation is safer than foster care / National Coalition for Child Protection Reform; title: Group homes don't teach kids how to live on their own / Kareem Banks.