Child welfare policy and services in Korea

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-44
Author(s):  
Yiyoon Chung ◽  
Haksoon Ahn ◽  
T. J. Lah
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Welfare Policy ◽  
Child Welfare Policy

Moon Lake’s Orphans and “The Other Way to Live”

2019 ◽  
pp. 79-102
Author(s):  
Jean C. Griffith
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Welfare Policy ◽  
The Other ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
Child Welfare Policy ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Rank One ◽  
Poor Children ◽  
Moon Lake

This essay examines the roles the character Easter in “Moon Lake” plays in the context of early-twentieth-century debates about the roots of poverty and society’s level of responsibility to poor children. By placing the focus of the story not on Easter but on the genteel Morgana girls’ shifting attitudes about her, Welty illustrates the ways child welfare policy was shaped by conflicting attitudes, whereby sympathy for innocent children coexisted with scorn for their parents. Assuming that Easter lives outside the boundaries that mark their own places in Morgana’s gendered, class-bound, and racially-segregated society, Jinny Love Stark and Nina Carmichael imagine the “orphan” to embody a womanhood untethered by race or rank, one, perhaps, more representative of American democracy. Ultimately, though, the girls come to see that Easter’s status as an orphan makes her more marked by and vulnerable to the violence and oppression that shape the South’s racial patriarchy.

Beyond safety and permanency: Making well-being a focus of policy and practice for children in state care

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-20
Author(s):  
Mark E. Courtney
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Welfare Policy ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Child Safety ◽  
Child Welfare Services ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Child Welfare Policy ◽  
Welfare Services ◽  
Permanency Outcomes

This essay explores some of the reasons why child welfare policy has too often avoided an explicit focus on child well-being. The historical origins of child welfare services contribute to avoidance of child well-being in policy discourse. In addition, program administrators are reluctant to explicitly take responsibility for the well-being of children they serve because of concerns about added liability, the belief that public institutions other than the child welfare system should be held responsible, and the fear that child welfare services will be unable to ameliorate the damage that children often suffer before entering care. Three empirical studies of child welfare populations in the US are used to examine the inextricable links between child safety, permanency and well-being. It is argued that broadening child welfare policy to embrace child well-being as a policy goal will only enhance the likelihood that child welfare agencies will improve child safety and permanency outcomes.

Developing a Measurement of Child Welfare Policy and Practice: Local Supervisory Review Instrument

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haksoon Ahn ◽  
Philip J. Osteen ◽  
Julia O'Connor ◽  
Terry V. Shaw ◽  
Linda Carter
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Welfare Policy ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Child Welfare Policy
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