The Role of Kinship and Siblings in Young Children’s Placement Preferences
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Although considerable attention has been directed toward the most appropriate placement for children following removal from home due to maltreatment, very little of this attention has focused on children’s stated preferences, particularly when children are young. Specifically, children below 12 years of age are often presumed incompetent to form reasoned judgments about their best interests in placement. This assumption, however, has rarely been tested directly. We surveyed 100 4- to 11-year-olds removed from home because of maltreatment about their placement preferences. Children were less likely to indicate they wanted to return home if they were placed with siblings or with kin, consistent with statutory placement preferences. These results suggest that young children may express more mature preferences than recognized by the law, and that there may be value in asking even relatively young children about with whom they would like to live following their removal from home as a result of maltreatment.
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Background
- Authors
- Dickerson, K. L., Lyon, T. D., & Quas, J. A.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- University of Southern California (US)
- Corresponding author
- Dickerson, Kelli L.
- Venue
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2019-06-16
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 17-18
- Pages
- NP9299-NP9316
- ISSN
- 0886-2605 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-6518
- PMC
- PMC7001856
- OpenAlex
- W2948244479
- Cited by
- 5
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 1.31
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- SSRN Electronic Journal (submittedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- bepress Legal Repository (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD087685)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Child Welfare and Adoption
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Children's Rights and Participation
- Social Sciences › Law › Legal and Social Justice Studies
- Keywords
- child abuse, sibling placement, young children, best interests of the child, child custody decisions, child competence, child removal
- MeSH terms
- Child, Child Abuse, Child Welfare, Child, Preschool, Foster Home Care, Humans, Surveys and Questionnaires, Siblings
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