Scandalous Politics: Child Welfare Policy in the States

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195 Page numbers with f indicate figures; those with t indicate tables Index AACWA. See Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act ACNJ (Association for Children of New Jersey ), 122, 124–25, 134, 135–36, 138, 149 adoption AACWA on, 32, 41 ASFA on, 25, 38, 41 debates on, 40 federal policy on, 19, 31 Jackson scandal and, 126–27 Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) (1997) vs. AACWA, 37–38 debates on, 37–40, 41–45, 46 family preservation and, 2 Family Preservation and Support Act reauthorization, 39–40 focus of, 19, 24–25 on foster care, 19 organizations that testified on, 170–72 parental rights and, 152–53 reasonable efforts provision, 38, 39, 41 scandals and, 47–48, 50n10 Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act (AACWA) (1980) vs. ASFA, 37–38 debates on, 27–32, 40–45, 46 enactment of, 32–35, 45 on family reunification, 19, 24–25, 40–41, 44 focus of, 19, 24–25 on foster care, 19, 24–25, 28, 32, 34, 38, 44 media on, 36 organizations that testified on, 167–68 reauthorization in 1981, 50n3 Republican Contract with America on, 37 scandals and, 50n10 advocacy organizations on the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act, 50n9 institutional memory of, 150–51 in New Jersey, 122 role of, 149–51 sustained attention to policy and, 161 testimony by, 45, 46 AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children), 8, 9, 50n4 AFDC-Foster Care Program (AFDC-FC), 27–28, 30, 31–32 African Americans in foster care, 42 as an independent variable, 59 spending levels and, 62, 68, 70n14, 149 state legislation passage and, 65 statistics on, 175t stereotypes of, 149 welfare policy and, 9–10 After Disaster (Birkland), 16 agenda setting, 3, 12–14, 16–17, 117 Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), 8, 9, 50n4 Alaska, 22–23n3 American Bar Association, 58 American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, 75–76 American Medical Association Journal, 25 American Public Welfare Association, 44–45 American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 25 America’s Most Wanted (television show), 74 Anne E. Casey Foundation Family-to-Family program, 118n4 Arias-Baca, Miguel, 96, 97, 109 media coverage of, 96, 101–3, 118n2 rule changes after, 98–99 ASFA. See Adoption and Safe Families Act Ashbrook, John M., 50n7 196 Index Association for Children of New Jersey (ACNJ), 122, 124–25, 134, 135–36, 138, 149 Auslander, Charles, 74, 78, 82, 164n9 battered-child syndrome, 25 Berry, William D., 70n7 Bevan, Carol Statuto, 37 Beye, Karen, 114–15 biological family. See family, biological; family preservation Birkland, Thomas A., 3, 16, 23n9 blacks. See African Americans blame, 13, 14–15, 124, 147–48 block grants, 31, 32, 108, 112–13 Bolden, Saonnia, 36 The Book of David: How Preserving Families Can Cost Children’s Lives (Gelles), 35–36 Boys Town (movie), 37 Brodhead, William M., 41, 43 Brown, Amiya, 1 Bush, George H. W., 35 Bush, Jeb approval rating for, 86 blue ribbon panel, 76–80, 84, 85, 86–87, 89, 92, 95n12 campaign pledge by, 86–87 on DCF, 73–74 on family life, 77, 149 on Kearney, 81, 85 on legislative changes, 76 media attention and, 145 on privatization, 89, 94n10 reelection campaign by, 77, 86–88, 93–94 on Regier, 82 on Rilya Wilson, 74, 77 on spending levels, 84, 94n6 Butler, Ian, 13, 23n8 Butterworth, Bob, 92 Carter, Jimmy, 30, 32 case management, 6, 8, 32, 34 caseworkers average workload for, 130 blue ribbon panel on, 78–79 case load of, 83, 141n2 in Colorado scandals, 98 falsification of records by, 72, 75–76 implementation of existing rules by, 158–59 new rules for, 120–21 personal liability of, 71n23 responses to scandal by, 69 Rilya Wilson case, 72, 75–76, 78–79, 151 rule compliance by, 138–39 union representation for, 123–24, 134–35, 141, 151–52, 161 Williams family scandal and, 119, 141n2 Catholic Charities, 113 causal stories, 13, 14–16 CBC (community-based care), 89–91, 92, 152 centralization, 112, 115–16, 157 See also decentralization CFSRs. See Child and Family Services Reviews Charlie and Nadine H. v. Todd Whitman et al., 125–26, 128–29, 135, 137–38, 140, 153–54 child abuse backlog of cases, 74–75, 94n3, 95n13 deaths from, 5, 51, 89 definition of, 5 history of, 22n2 as individual dysfunction, 164n8 investigation and intervention for, 5–8, 26, 100 overview of, 4–8 as a policy problem, 25–27 psychological...