1st Edition
Foster Children, Rights and the Law Best Interest, Normalcy and the Welfare System
By Matthew Trail
Copyright 2025
220 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
220 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
220 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book discusses child wishes, rights and participation in the foster care system. Making decisions in a foster child’s best interest is a widely used, but also widely criticized international legal doctrine. This work discusses the two major legal frameworks, best interest and normalcy, for which foster care decisions are made and how those frameworks might shape how child welfare... Read more
1. The Child Welfare System and Dependency
2. The Best Interest of Children
3. Normalcy
4. Risk, Normalcy and Best Interest
5. Decision-Making
6. Children’s Rights and Participation
7. Best Interest vs Normalcy: How Professionals Respond
8. Normalcy Charter
Biography
Matthew Trail is Research Fellow with the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Germany, and a former US legal aid child welfare care attorney.
