When Home Is Still Unsafe: From Family Reunification to Foster Care Reentry

The Reunification of Very Young Children from Foster Care

FamilY reunification is a central strategy for family preservation. Although child welfare services have arguably relied too heavily on family reunification to preserve families-and should more often prevent any separation of parent and child with in-home services-the incidence of children with a first entry into foster care has recently reached levels equivalent to those a decade earlier (Goer...

When children cannot remain home: foster family care and kinship care.

Despite the best efforts of child welfare agencies, community agencies, and individuals, some children are not safe in their homes and must be placed in substitute care settings by child welfare authorities. Increasingly, as this article points out, child welfare agencies are placing children in the homes of their relatives rather than in traditional foster family homes (31% of all children in ...

Does Democracy Foster Trust? Evidence from the German Reunification

The level of trust inherent in a society is important for a wide range of microeconomic and macroeconomic outcomes. This paper investigates how individuals’ attitudes toward social and institutional trust are shaped by the political regime in which they live. The German reunification is a unique natural experiment that allows us to conduct such a study. Using data from the German General Social...

Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery: still possible when aortic clamping is judged unsafe.

We read with great interest the recent article by Vollroth et al. [1], describing their experience with conversion to sternotomy during minimally invasive mitral surgery. The authors are to be congratulated on the low incidence of conversion (1%) that they have reported. The high early mortality (23.5%) associated with conversion in their series remains a reminder of the gravity of such an occu...

Partnering with Parents: Promising Approaches to Improve Reunification Outcomes for Children in Foster Care