A Call to Congress: A Constitutional Indian Child Welfare Act is Not a Flawless Indian Child Welfare Act

The mandatory reporting of child abuse under the Child Welfare Act.

Mid-Winter Meeting (Family Law: Medical and Counselling Records panel). Thanks are extended to my co-panellists, the Honourable Mr. Justice Peter Martin and Ms. Danielle Aubry, Executive Director of Calgary Communities Against Sexual Abuse, and to the anonymous reviewer for this Journal, for their helpful comments. Wayne N. Renke is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Al...

Assessing child welfare under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008: a case study in medicalisation?

This article reports on a study with staff working in assisted conception clinics in the UK about making welfare of the child (WOC) assessments pre-conception. This aspect of infertility treatment is obligatory under section 13(5) of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act, which was amended in 2008. The aim of the study was to find out how this change to the law had impacted on practice. In...

Welfare Reform’s Impact on Child Welfare

When Child Welfare Works: A Working Paper

Is a structured, manualized, evidence-based treatment protocol culturally competent and equivalently effective among American Indian parents in child welfare?

In a statewide implementation, the manualized SafeCare home-based model was effective in reducing child welfare recidivism and producing high client satisfaction. Concerns about the effectiveness and acceptability of structured, manualized models with American Indians have been raised in the literature, but have rarely been directly tested. This study tests recidivism reduction equivalency and ...