Jonson-Reid Melissa, Barth Richard P
George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130, USA.
Soc Work. 2003 Jul;48(3):348-61. doi: 10.1093/sw/48.3.348.
Little research has been done to help us understand what happens to children who exit child welfare foster care for reasons other than emancipation. Almost no research exists to help us understand out-of-home placement supervised by other providers of children's social services such as juvenile probation or mental health. This study examined school-age children who entered out-of-home placement supervised by probation departments after they left child welfare foster or group care. Instability in child welfare placements significantly increased the risk of a transition to probation foster care. Among the children exiting child welfare placements, those who had entered their first spell in care at ages 12 through 14 or were first removed because of sexual abuse or neglect were at greater risk of probation out-of-home placement. Implications for social work policy and services are discussed.
几乎没有研究能帮助我们了解那些因非成年而离开儿童福利寄养照料的儿童会遭遇什么情况。几乎不存在任何研究能帮助我们了解由诸如少年缓刑监督或心理健康等其他儿童社会服务提供者监管的家庭外安置情况。本研究调查了学龄儿童，这些儿童在离开儿童福利寄养照料或集体照料后进入了由缓刑部门监管的家庭外安置。儿童福利安置的不稳定显著增加了过渡到缓刑寄养照料的风险。在离开儿童福利安置的儿童中，那些在12至14岁首次进入照料机构或因性虐待或忽视而首次被带走的儿童，面临缓刑家庭外安置的风险更大。文中讨论了对社会工作政策和服务的启示。
