Beckerman A
Fischer Center for the Advancement of Education, Nova Southeastern University, North Miami Beach Fl., USA.
Child Welfare. 1998 Sep-Oct;77(5):513-29.
Case workers involved in permanency planning for children whose mothers are incarcerated must assess the family's strengths, the mother's capacity to assume parental responsibilities, and the integrity of the parent-child relationship; and address concerns regarding the short- and long-term effects of the children's socioemotional dislocation and the merits of their retaining a relationship with their mothers. At the same time, correctional policies and practices delineate the nature and extent of contacts with the mother and the mother's access to rehabilitative programs. Agency guidelines, practice tools, and advocacy initiatives must be developed to help practitioners meet these challenges. An initial review of the Adoption and Safe Families Act suggests the need for close monitoring of the impact of its mandates to shorten the time for moving children toward permanency and its weakening of the expectation for "reasonable efforts" to be made to reunify families.
参与为母亲被监禁儿童制定永久性安置计划的个案工作者必须评估家庭的优势、母亲承担父母责任的能力以及亲子关系的完整性；并解决有关儿童社会情感脱节的短期和长期影响以及他们与母亲保持关系的益处等问题。与此同时，惩教政策和做法规定了与母亲接触的性质和范围以及母亲参加康复项目的机会。必须制定机构指南、实践工具和宣传倡议，以帮助从业者应对这些挑战。对《收养与安全家庭法》的初步审查表明，需要密切监测其缩短儿童实现永久性安置时间的规定以及削弱为使家庭团聚而做出“合理努力”期望的影响。
