The law governing children is complex, sometimes appearing almost incoherent. The
relatively simple framework established in the Progressive Era, in which parents had primary …

The child protection legal system is at an inflection point. A growing family defense
movement fights against state efforts to separate parents from their children. Calls to abolish …

Permanency is a pillar of child welfare law; children generally do better with legally
permanent caretakers than in temporary foster care. Historically, when foster children cannot …

When Professors Katharine Bartlett and Elizabeth Scott proposed a symposium and
accompanying issue of Law and Contemporary Problems organized around my article Child …

The Restatement of Children and the Law features a strong endorsement of parents' rights to
the care, custody, and control of their children because parents' rights are generally good for …

This chapter deals with unfolding the nature of that responsibility in the context of the
reciprocal obligations of parents and offspring, and the responsibility of the state to support …

When a court determines there is no realistic possibility that a child can continue to live
safely with their parents, that court must make a difficult decision, based on the child's' best …

Since the 1970s, legislatures and courts have adopted a variety of approaches to address
foster care's overuse, instability, and lack of permanence. Most reforms focused on rules and …

This study aims to determine which level of quality of child protection services reduces the
demand for emergency child removals at the system level in Finland. A moderation analysis …

Juvenile court, the predecessor of family court, was one of the grand public institutions
established by American social reformers around the turn of the twentieth century to address …