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A Phenomenological Study Of Black Fathers In Child Welfare, Tamaru N. Phillips
A Phenomenological Study Of Black Fathers In Child Welfare, Tamaru N. Phillips
Department of Family Therapy Dissertations and Applied Clinical Projects
Each year thousands of children are removed from their homes and placed in foster care where they lose connections with their family, community, and friends. Coakley (2007) points out that children of color are overly represented within the child welfare system, and there is a lack of research on Black fathers and their involvement when their children become a part of the system. Studies have suggested that most families that encounter the child welfare system have adult males who are actively involved with their families, however, child welfare workers do not engage these men (Coady, Hoy, & Cameron, 2013). The …