African American children in foster care: HHS and congressional actions could help reduce proportion in care: Statement of Kay Brown, Director, Education, Workforce, and Income Security; testimony before the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives

2008 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Foster Care ◽  
Family Support ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
African American Children ◽  
Income Security ◽  
Children In Foster Care ◽  
American Children

A Model Program for African American Children in the Foster Care System

2002 ◽  
Vol 16 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 195-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aminifu R. Harvey ◽  
Georgette K. Loughney ◽  
Janaé Moore
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Foster Care ◽  
African American Children ◽  
Model Program ◽  
Foster Care System ◽  
American Children ◽  
Care System

scholarly journals The Cumulative Prevalence of Termination of Parental Rights for U.S. Children, 2000–2016

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Wildeman ◽  
Frank R. Edwards ◽  
Sara Wakefield
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Native American ◽  
Foster Care ◽  
Life Tables ◽  
Parental Rights ◽  
African American Children ◽  
Termination Of Parental Rights ◽  
Synthetic Cohort ◽  
American Children ◽  
Cumulative Prevalence

Recent research has used synthetic cohort life tables to show that having a Child Protective Services investigation, experiencing confirmed maltreatment, and being placed in foster care are more common for American children than would be expected based on daily or annual rates for these events. In this article, we extend this literature by using synthetic cohort life tables and data from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System to generate the first cumulative prevalence estimates of termination of parental rights. The results provide support for four conclusions. First, according to the 2016 estimate, 1 in 100 U.S. children will experience the termination of parental rights by age 18. Second, the risk of experiencing this event is highest in the first few years of life. Third, risks are highest for Native American and African American children. Nearly 3.0% of Native American children and around 1.5% of African American children will ever experience this event. Finally, there is dramatic variation across states in the risk of experiencing this event and in racial/ethnic inequality in this risk. Taken together, these findings suggest that parental rights termination, which involves the permanent loss of access to children for parents, is far more common than often thought.

Final Consonant Deletion in African American Children Speaking Black English

1993 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 161-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Moran
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Black English ◽  
African American Children ◽  
Vowel Length ◽  
Minimal Pairs ◽  
Speech Evaluation ◽  
American Children

The purpose of this study was to determine whether African American children who delete final consonants mark the presence of those consonants in a manner that might be overlooked in a typical speech evaluation. Using elicited sentences from 10 African American children from 4 to 9 years of age, two studies were conducted. First, vowel length was determined for minimal pairs in which final consonants were deleted. Second, listeners who identified final consonant deletions in the speech of the children were provided training in narrow transcription and reviewed the elicited sentences a second time. Results indicated that the children produced longer vowels preceding "deleted" voiced final consonants, and listeners perceived fewer deletions following training in narrow transcription. The results suggest that these children had knowledge of the final consonants perceived to be deleted. Implications for assessment and intervention are discussed.

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