Foster Care Law: A Primer

By Judith Larsen and Harvey Schweitzer

Foster Care Law: A Primer introduces social work professionals and attorneys to the most significant and typical legal problems that may arise from the moment a neglected-abuse case enters the foster... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0890893217
• ISBN13: 9780890893210
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.5" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Filling a gap

This is the first book I've seen that addresses the important, and often confusing legal underpinnings of Foster Care in a manner that is helpful to those not in the legal profession. It's a must for anyone involved in the Foster Care system. This book may help to ease the trauma often experienced by beginning foster care social workers, new foster parents and others who may be flung unprepared into a complicated legal system where attornies speak in an unfamiliar jargon. It can be read cover-to-cover or used as a handy reference to important topics such as liability, health care for foster children, and the rights of various parties. This little book can be stuck into a brief case and brought out to read while waiting for a case to be called in court. It's readable, reasonable, and filled with very important information.

An Expert Overview and Extremely Readable

This book is a terrific overview of the law of foster care, written by two of the leading experts in the field. It is a perfect introduction for social workers, lawyers, and others, and is a useful reference as well. And it is highly readable, not the ordinary legal treatise. Different sections of the book look at the relevant law from different perspectives - that of a child, the foster parents, biological parents, a public foster care agency, a private foster care agency, and a court. As a result, the authors have done most of the hard work for the reader, organizing the material of most interest to each reader into just a few chapters and providing more detail in a very logical and easy to find format. As a result, the book is perfect for non-professionals as well as professionals. This book belongs on the shelf of everyone with an interest or involvement in foster care.