Deck 10: Child Welfare: Family Preservation Policy

Question 1

What is the primary measure by which the effectiveness of family preservation is measured by?

A)Cost efficiency
B)Popularity
C)Practicality
D)Placement prevention

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Family preservation is one of those rare social policies that contains significant elements that appeal to stakeholders across the political spectrum.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Until the Social Security Act of 1935,child welfare (child rescue,and later child protection)was primarily a:

A)Public function
B)Charity function
C)Private function
D)State and local government function

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The surge of child abuse cases in the 1950's was due largely to:

A)Advances in the medical profession that allowed doctors to better identify traumatic injuries and their probable causes.
B)A new reporting system instituted by the CWLA that encouraged people to report suspected cases of child abuse or neglect.
C)A new policy instituted by law enforcement that required all professionals to report suspected cases of child abuse or neglect.
D)A shift in pubic perception on what constituted child "abuse"

Question 5

In 2011,the number of children in out-of-home care was __________.

A)401,000.
B)491,000.
C)914,000
D)193,000

Question 6

Improvements in child functioning and improvements in family functioning are two suggestions for use in evaluating a child welfare policy's effectiveness.

Question 7

Which of the following is not one of the key ideas of permanency planning?

A)The child's own home is the best place and removal should occur only in extreme circumstances.
B)Parental poverty is a clear sign that a child should be removed from the home.
C)The primary goal for a child removed from home should be return to the home.
D)The preferred plan for a child that cannot return to biological home is adoption.

Question 8

The technique used by the Children's Aid Society to get homeless children off the streets involved:

A)Taking children off the streets and placing them with different families in urban areas.
B)Gathering homeless children and placing them in poorhouses.
C)Gathering homeless children off the streets and placing them with rural farm families.
D)Taking children off the street and sending them to vocational schools in rural areas.

Question 9

The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation has produce literature stating the family preservation programs cost:

A)$10,000 per year.
B)$8,000,per year.
C)$40,000.
D)$3,000.

Question 10

The two major developments that shifted the public's attitude toward the rights of children were:

A)The change of children in the economy,and the creation of children's services
B)A shift in family law providing greater protection to children and increased need for children in the workplace.
C)Increased need for children in the workplace,and the creation of children's services
D)The change of children in the economy,and the shift in family providing greater protection to children

Question 11

Under the Child Abuse Preservation and Treatment Act the courts can waive the requirement of "reasonable efforts" to preserve the family before parental rights are terminated if:

A)The parent is on probation.
B)One or both parents have been in jail two or more times.
C)Parental rights of the parent to a sibling have been involuntary terminated.
D)The parents have been found unfit by the courts.

Question 12

Which of the following are the three major levels of child dependency as a problem?

A)Child abuse,child maltreatment,and large adoption population
B)Child maltreatment,child poverty,and child abuse
C)Child malnourishment,child law breaking,child poverty
D)Child poverty,child maltreatment,and rapid rise of the foster care population.

Question 13

Family preservation policy occurs at the intersection of some of the most deeply held,and deeply dividing,of our society's values.

Question 14

Some possible explanations for the continuing decrease in foster homes may be due to: increased employment of women;inadequate support services for foster payment;and,low payments made to foster parents.

Question 15

Somewhere between a manifest and a latent goal of family preservation is the goal to:

A)improve parental mental health
B)decrease the cost of child protective services
C)decrease workloads for social workers
D)respect the rights of communities to make decisions

Question 16

One motivation for the close evaluation of the family preservation policy is because the policy involves:

A)Using a lot of social resources and has the potential to be costly
B)Careful monitoring of child welfare resources due to policy regulations
C)Leaving the child in a potentially harmful situation
D)Putting social workers in a potentially harmful situation

Question 17

Some goals of the Keeping Children and Families Safe Act are reining in family preservation efforts,such as case monitoring,management and tracing procedures.

Question 18

According to extensive research on the issue,the source of all child welfare problems is:

A)Lack of parenting
B)Poverty
C)Malnutrition
D)Maltreatment

Question 19

An approach aimed at reducing the number of children removed from their families and placed in foster care that has been enthusiastically supported and is now the dominant service of choice is:

A)Family reunification
B)Family preservation
C)Family services
D)Child protective services

Question 20

When the government steps into family life as the ultimate parental authority this is referred to as:

A)Parentus maximus
B)Big brother
C)Parentae govermetus
D)Parens patriae

Question 21

Describe the circumstances and factors that led to the permanency planning movement.Describe the short and long term results stemming from the use of permanency planning.Overall,what impact,if any,do you think permanency planning had on foster care placements?

Question 22

The cornerstone of family preservation is the assumption that foster care is bad for children.Does research support this assumption? Do you think this is a correct assumption to make? Why or why not? Use examples and information from the text to support your answer.

Question 23

What are the advantages and disadvantages to kinship care? Do you think that this policy would be appealing and widely acceptable in the political and the social work arenas? What foreseeable problems are there with this policy?

Question 24

Compare the benefits and shortfalls of the permanency planning and family preservation.Describe which bodies of research and theories support each policy.Which policy most appeals to you? Why?