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AACWA
(redirected from Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act)

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AACWAAdoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act
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First, it decreases from 18 months to 12 the time allowed for parents to reunify with their children initially established under the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980.
When policy meets practice: the untested effects of permanency ... by Berrick, Jill Duerr / Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Yet more burdens were piled on child welfare workers in 1980, with the passage of Jimmy Carter's last significant piece of social legislation, the 1980 Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act (AACWA).
Suffer the children: how government fails its most vulnerable ... by Karger, Howard Jacob / Washington Monthly
The 1980 Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act, which institutionalized the goal of permanency in child placements (Holody, 1997), clearly favored returning the child to, or keeping the child with, the biological family whenever possible.
Adoption in the U.S.: the emergence of a social movement by Engel, Madeline H. / Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
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