Moving Toward Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare

Faced with rapidly changing social and economic conditions, service professionals, policy developers, and researchers have raised significant concerns about the

The North American approach to child protection is broadly accepted, despite frequent criticisms of its core limitations: parental fear and resistance, the limi

In the context of the increasing global movement of people and a growing evidence base for differing outcomes in child welfare, Routledge Handbook of Global Chi

This book identifies and analyses differences between the four UK nations in the way child protection systems are being developed, thought about and put into pr

Children who receive child welfare services are a vulnerable group, and their numbers are growing. All who care about them need to be fully informed about curre

"cross the spectrum of political ideologies there is, in principle, widespread agreement that the state has a legitimate role in protecting children from harm.

Father Involvement in Canada brings together almost two dozen leading scholars of fatherhood issues to examine the roles of Canadian fathers. They look at the e

This book brings critical, scholarly attention to the systematic positioning and subjective experiences of mothers involved in child protection processes in “

Picture family life in Canada. Does it include women or girls being murdered, on average, every two and a half days? Or the fact that intimate partner violence