Carnochan Sarah, Moore Megan, Austin Michael J
Bay Area Social Services Consortium, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-7400, USA.
J Evid Based Soc Work. 2013;10(3):210-9. doi: 10.1080/15433714.2013.788950.
While family reunification is the primary permanency objective for children who must be placed temporarily outside of their homes, reunification is not possible for all children. For those children who do not return to their parents and cannot find permanent homes with other family members, adoption is the favored outcome. This review examines the composite measure in the federal Child and Family Services Review that measures agency performance related to the timeliness of adoptions of foster children. It summarizes the multiple factors that research has found to be associated with increased risk for adoption delay and disruption. These include child characteristics, family of origin and adoptive family characteristics, and features of child welfare services and systems. Practices that have been broadly linked to adoption timeliness or address risk factors associated with delays in adoption are described, including social worker activities and agency or system-wide practice.
虽然家庭团聚是那些必须暂时离开家庭安置的儿童的主要永久性目标，但并非所有儿童都能实现家庭团聚。对于那些无法回到父母身边且无法与其他家庭成员建立永久家庭的儿童来说，收养是理想的结果。本综述考察了联邦儿童与家庭服务审查中的综合指标，该指标衡量了与寄养儿童收养及时性相关的机构表现。它总结了研究发现的与收养延迟和中断风险增加相关的多个因素。这些因素包括儿童特征、原生家庭和收养家庭特征，以及儿童福利服务和系统的特点。文中描述了与收养及时性广泛相关或解决与收养延迟相关风险因素的做法，包括社会工作者的活动以及机构或全系统的做法。
