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Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank
For
Exploring Child Welfare: A Practice
Perspective
7th Edition
Crosson-Tower
Prepared by
Robert Mann

Table of Contents
1. Children: Our Most Important Resource 1
2. The Changing Family 9
3. Children and Poverty 16
4. Children and Violence in the Community 23
5. Children Against the Backdrop of War: Addressing the Needs of
Military Families 30
6. Trauma-Sensitive Educational Settings 37
7. Child Abuse and Neglect: Protecting Children When Families Cannot 43
8. Family Preservation or Child Placement? Serving the Child’s Best Interests 49
9. Juvenile Court Justice: Promoting the Rights and Welfare of Children and
Families 56
10. Teenage Pregnancy and Parenting 63
11. Children in Family Foster Care 69
12. The Adoption of Children 79
13. Children in Residential Setting 87
14. Our Children’s Future 94
Answer Key 100

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Chapter 1
Children: Our Most Important Resource
CHAPTER SUMMARY
The role of child welfare services is to provide a safety net for children. When seeking to understand how today’s
services for children operate, it is helpful to consider the past. Children have always been at the mercy of their
caregivers. In earlier times, unwanted children were dealt with through abortion, infanticide, and abandonment.
Children were required to work alongside adults who may have disregarded that they were weaker and less able to
work long hours. An early form of child labor was indenture, a system in which children worked as apprentices to
tradesmen. It was not until the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that such reformers as Jane Addams,
Homer Folks, Grace Abbott, and Julia Lathrop sought reform in child labor laws. Several agencies have advocated
for children over the years. The U.S. Children’s Bureau (founded in 1912), Family Welfare Association (formerly
the COS), and CDF each played a role in protecting children and advocating for their well-being.
The responsibility for children originally rested entirely with their parents. Children were expected to follow their
parents, even to almshouses, where the conditions could be unfit for adults, let alone their offspring. Later, the care
of orphaned children or children whose parents could not care for them shifted to orphanages. In the late nineteenth
century, Charles Loring Brace, feeling that a family setting was a better environment for children than an
institutional setting, instituted “placing out,” whereby children were sent by train to the Midwestern United States to
live with farm families.
Minority children were excluded from the programs for white children. An African American child might be sent to
a reform school rather than an orphanage or private home. Native American children were often sent to boarding
schools so that they could be better assimilated into white culture.
With advances in research about child development came the recognition that children need a family environment.
Placement in foster and adoptive homes became the priority. In 1874 the well-publicized case of the maltreated
Mary Ellen Wilson gave rise to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and the first formalized efforts
to protect children from abuse and neglect. Over the years, numerous pieces of legislation have been enacted to
protect children’s rights and stimulate services for children and families.
Since the early 1900s, there have been numerous advances in the provision of services for children. Today family
preservation (keeping families intact) and permanency planning (finding permanent arrangements as early as
possible for children whose parents cannot care for them) are key concepts of the provision of services. The post-
World War II era witnessed the expansion of women in the workplace, propelling the need for child care outside the
home.
We are also beginning to recognize the importance of attachment in children’s lives and to seek new ways to provide
the consistency that enables children to develop healthy relationships. In recognition of this need, The Adoptions
and Safe Families Act of 1997 (P.L. 105-89) was signed into law by President Clinton on November 19, 1997. The
new law, which amends the 1980 Child Welfare Act (P.L. 96-272), clarifies that the health and safety of children
served by child welfare agencies must be their paramount concern and aims to move children in foster care more
quickly into permanent homes.
ASFA is one of many reforms spurred by CAPTA (Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act), passed in 1974 here
priority for provision of services and protection of children was recognized.
Funding, always an issue in the provision of child welfare services, is a major concern. Critics of the move to
collapse funds into block grants contend that services to children would be cut substantially. Others argue that it is
the personal touch that is lacking in today’s agency efforts. The fact remains that children are our most important
resource. Strengthening the safety net that protects them from harm and enables them to develop safely and
healthfully is the obligation of all adults.

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STUDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES
 Students will be able to explain why abortion, infanticide, and abandonment were practiced throughout
history.
 Students will be able to analyze how the early efforts of reformers to intervene in child labor influenced
current child labor laws and practices.
 Students will be able to cite the individuals and organizations providing advocacy for children over the
years.
 Students will be able to identify why children might come to the attention of the child welfare system today.
 Students will be able to describe the role that attachment plays in the lives of children and how services
should address attachment issues.
 Students will be able to differentiate between the various types of roles a child welfare worker of today
might take in serving children.
 Students will be able to identify key legal and social reforms representing how society reacts to and
addresses the changing needs of children.
 Students will be able to describe the effect of population shift on the social service system.
TEACHING TIPS
 It might be helpful to invite students to summarize the information that they have read prior to beginning to
discuss it deeply in class. Asking students to identify the part of the chapter that they found most intriguing
is an innovative way to invite more class participation.
 Students from specific cultural backgrounds may have difficulty understanding the behaviors and
characteristics of families from very different cultural backgrounds. It is essential that students understand
that just because certain characteristics and behaviors are different does not mean that they are strange or
inferior.
 Students might have trouble distinguishing between generalizations and specific details. Emphasize that at
several points throughout the text our author explains that the text contains generalizations about different
types of families because otherwise it would be too long.
 Help students develop deeper understandings of the information contained in this chapter by connecting the
information to real families. For example, when discussing the cultures of Middle Eastern families, ask if
anybody knows a family from the Middle East. Also, take advantage of students as representatives from
specific types of cultures and families.
LECTURE GUIDE AND ASSET CORRELATION
The below lecture guide and asset correlation indicates where discussion prompts, assignments, activities connect to
a given topic. The full descriptions of these prompts and assignments follow the below guide.
Discussion Prompts
 Throughout this chapter, various discussion prompts have been provided for in-class use. These prompts are
developed to assist you in starting open conversation with students about key topics of the chapter.
Assignments and Activities
 These assignments and activities can be used to expand thought process on the subject or to deepen the
student’s understanding and application to real life circumstances.
Chapter Outline
The Need for Child Welfare Services Today (Activity #1)
A Brief History of the Plight of Children

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