Deck 15: Child Welfare Policy

Question 1

Between 1993 and 2001,how many children died in the District of Columbia as a result of maltreatment?

A)229
B)51
C)72
D)396

Answer 1

A

Question 2

How did the Social Security Act of 1935 address child welfare? Discuss.

Answer 2

no answer

Question 3

In 2014,Head Start spent $8.6 billion to serve _______ children.

A)12 million
B)one million
C)500,000
D)50,000

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Of these factors,which one does NOT contribute to making a child "hard to adopt"

A)Being older.
B)Being disabled.
C)Being a Minority.
D)Being currently in foster care.

Question 5

A British researcher concluded that the country with the highest child fatality rate for industrial nations is

A)Japan.
B)Australia.
C)The United States.
D)The United Kingdom.

Question 6

Day care for children has become an important issue,and by 2002 what percentage of mothers with children under age six worked outside the home?

A)19.6%
B)64.1%
C)32%
D)89.3%

Question 7

Compared to funding for elder services,what is funding for child welfare services expected to do in the future?

A)It is expected to stay the same.
B)It is expected to increase.
C)It is expected to decrease.
D)No estimates for future funding are available.

Question 8

Graduates of foster care often have

A)Good relationships with their former foster parents.
B)Alcohol and substance abuse issues and depression.
C)Lower rates of alcohol and substance abuse and depression.
D)The desire to become foster parents themselves.

Question 9

What were the four major specifications of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of1974?

Question 10

During the last decades of the twentieth century,the number of teen pregnancies

A)Stayed about the same.
B)Decreased.
C)Increased.
D)Increased only for African American teens.

Question 11

In relation to same-sex couple adoption,the U.S.Supreme Court has

A)Stated that prohibiting adoption by same-sex partners is illegal.
B)Stated it depends on whether the couple is married.
C)Stated that prohibiting same-sex adoption is legal.
D)Not yet decided on the issue.

Question 12

The percentage of adopted children is higher than the percentage of waiting children for all races except:

A)White
B)Hispanic
C)Asian
D)African American

Question 13

Explain the societal and governmental response to same-sex adoptions.What are the
ideologies and beliefs behind this response? Discuss.

Question 14

How many children in the United States live in poverty,per your textbook?

A)one-fifth
B)one-third
C)one-tenth
D)two-fifths

Question 15

Of children with permanency plans,the largest percentage is

A)Adopted.
B)Reunified.
C)Emancipated.
D)Sent to relatives.

Question 16

Why are child welfare services often controversial?

Question 17

Explain the beginning of Child Protective Services in the US.What incidents led to this development? What were the societal attitudes that promoted child protection? Discuss.

Question 18

Douglas Besharov contends that 1,000 children die under circumstances suggestive of parental maltreatment each year.What percentage of these cases was previously
Reported?

A)30-50%
B)75%
C)20%
D)99%

Question 19

Subsidized adoption costs

A)About the same as foster care.
B)Much more than foster care.
C)Less than foster care.
D)Does not exist in the US.

Question 20

High caseloads in child welfare result in

A)Failure in permanency planning
B)Lowered costs
C)Efficient handling of abuse cases
D)Greater regional areas of service