Citation

Lindsey D. Am. J. Orthopsychiatry 1991; 61(2): 272-281.

Affiliation

Berkeley Child Welfare Research Center, University of California.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, American Orthopsychiatric Association, Publisher Wiley Blackwell)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2048642

Abstract

With more than 350,000 children in foster care in the United States, this paper explores why some children are removed from their biological parents while others, with similar problems, receive services in the home. A discriminant analysis of children who were placed in foster care and those who were provided supportive services at home suggests that, for children in all age groups, parents' income level is the best predictor of a child's removal from the home.

Language: en