Criteria for Determining Type of Placement

Publication Date: March 1957

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Bertel Gordon

Research Area: Social conditions

Keywords: Children; Family; Social Services; Social Problems

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The author discusses foster family day care as an alternative to full-time foster care and to institutional care. Cases in which this may be appropriate, according to the author, include: when the mother is employed or seeking employment, whether because the father is not in the home, or because both parents must work; where the parent-child relationship is such that partial separation is desirable; physical or emotional illness of a parent; and temporarily, while more permanent plans are being determined.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, ed. by Sanford Sherman, v.33, no.3, Spring 1957, p.300-304.