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Whose Rights Count? Negotiating Practice, Policy, and Legal Dilemmas Regarding Infant–Parent Contact When Infants are in Out-of-Home Care
This article takes a human rights perspective with a view to articulating the infant’s perspective when the infant has been subjected to abuse, neglect, or both and is reliant on the state to ensure his or her health and well-being. When a young child is removed from parental care, important and oft...
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2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3787782/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24098062 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/imhj.21381 |
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author | Miron, Devi Bisaillon, Claud Jordan, Brigid Bryce, Graham Gauthier, Yvon St-Andre, Martin Minnis, Helen |
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description | This article takes a human rights perspective with a view to articulating the infant’s perspective when the infant has been subjected to abuse, neglect, or both and is reliant on the state to ensure his or her health and well-being. When a young child is removed from parental care, important and often difficult decisions have to be made about subsequent contact between child and parent. We consider a number of dilemmas which may arise for practitioners when they are assisting child welfare decision makers in relation to contact, and acknowledge the limited empirical follow-up studies of the impact of child welfare practice and legal decisions on infant outcomes. We draw on the significant and substantive evidence base about infant emotional and cognitive development and infant–parent attachment relationships as well as infant mental health to illuminate the infant’s subjective experience in these practice dilemmas. We describe innovations in practice from various countries, which seek to shed light on the challenges often associated with contact. |
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spelling | pubmed-37877822013-10-04 Whose Rights Count? Negotiating Practice, Policy, and Legal Dilemmas Regarding Infant–Parent Contact When Infants are in Out-of-Home Care Miron, Devi Bisaillon, Claud Jordan, Brigid Bryce, Graham Gauthier, Yvon St-Andre, Martin Minnis, Helen Infant Ment Health J Policy Issue This article takes a human rights perspective with a view to articulating the infant’s perspective when the infant has been subjected to abuse, neglect, or both and is reliant on the state to ensure his or her health and well-being. When a young child is removed from parental care, important and often difficult decisions have to be made about subsequent contact between child and parent. We consider a number of dilemmas which may arise for practitioners when they are assisting child welfare decision makers in relation to contact, and acknowledge the limited empirical follow-up studies of the impact of child welfare practice and legal decisions on infant outcomes. We draw on the significant and substantive evidence base about infant emotional and cognitive development and infant–parent attachment relationships as well as infant mental health to illuminate the infant’s subjective experience in these practice dilemmas. We describe innovations in practice from various countries, which seek to shed light on the challenges often associated with contact. Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2013-03 2013-02-19 /pmc/articles/PMC3787782/ /pubmed/24098062 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/imhj.21381 Text en © 2013 Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ Re-use of this article is permitted in accordance with the Creative Commons Deed, Attribution 2.5, which does not permit commercial exploitation. |
spellingShingle | Policy Issue Miron, Devi Bisaillon, Claud Jordan, Brigid Bryce, Graham Gauthier, Yvon St-Andre, Martin Minnis, Helen Whose Rights Count? Negotiating Practice, Policy, and Legal Dilemmas Regarding Infant–Parent Contact When Infants are in Out-of-Home Care |
title | Whose Rights Count? Negotiating Practice, Policy, and Legal Dilemmas Regarding Infant–Parent Contact When Infants are in Out-of-Home Care |
title_full | Whose Rights Count? Negotiating Practice, Policy, and Legal Dilemmas Regarding Infant–Parent Contact When Infants are in Out-of-Home Care |
title_fullStr | Whose Rights Count? Negotiating Practice, Policy, and Legal Dilemmas Regarding Infant–Parent Contact When Infants are in Out-of-Home Care |
title_full_unstemmed | Whose Rights Count? Negotiating Practice, Policy, and Legal Dilemmas Regarding Infant–Parent Contact When Infants are in Out-of-Home Care |
title_short | Whose Rights Count? Negotiating Practice, Policy, and Legal Dilemmas Regarding Infant–Parent Contact When Infants are in Out-of-Home Care |
title_sort | whose rights count? negotiating practice, policy, and legal dilemmas regarding infant–parent contact when infants are in out-of-home care |
topic | Policy Issue |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3787782/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24098062 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/imhj.21381 |
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