Brown A W, Bailey-Etta B
Howard University School of Social Work, Washington, DC, USA.
Child Welfare. 1997 Jan-Feb;76(1):65-83.
An out-of-home care system that is itself in crisis lacks adequate resources to provide the services needed by families and children in distress. Increasingly, these families are composed of people of color, particularly African Americans. Using current child welfare statistics and a review of the literature, this article examines the nature of the crisis in child welfare, and how poverty and an array of social problems, as well as problems specific to the child welfare system, increase the overrepresentation of African American children and families in the out-of-home care system. Implications for child welfare practice and advocacy are also discussed.
一个自身处于危机中的家庭外照料系统缺乏足够资源来为处于困境的家庭和儿童提供所需服务。这些家庭越来越多地由有色人种组成，尤其是非裔美国人。本文利用当前的儿童福利统计数据并回顾相关文献，审视了儿童福利危机的本质，以及贫困、一系列社会问题，还有儿童福利系统特有的问题，是如何导致非裔美国儿童和家庭在家庭外照料系统中占比过高的。同时还讨论了对儿童福利实践和宣传工作的启示。
