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Provides an overview of the child welfare and judicial systems in the USA. It examines the federal and state legislative and judicial foundations of modern child welfare practice, court decisions and their impact on the rights of birthparents, foster parents, and children, class action suits and their impact on child welfare, and the role of child welfare workers in the legal process.

An essential resource for students of social policy and social welfare as well as for social welfare practitioners and other human services professionals, this text examines the policymaking activity of the different branches of the American government and of the public-at-large as well as the interactions between the branches of government and the general public in the formation and implementation of social policy.In addition to examining the...