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Toward A Public Health Legal Structure For Child Welfare, Joshua Gupta-Kagan
Toward A Public Health Legal Structure For Child Welfare, Joshua Gupta-Kagan
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The present American child welfare system infringes upon the fundamental liberty interests of millions of children and parents, is adversarial and punitive, and fails to prevent child maltreatment or protect children adequately from its most severe forms. Many in the field now recognize that a public health model would more effectively support the parent–child relationship and protect children from maltreatment than the current paradigm. Despite much attention to such an approach, the field has yet to develop a clear vision for how the law could or should support a public health approach or shape the actions of individuals and institutions …