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Are the Average Effects of Foster Care Placement Really Close to Zero?
Research on Social Work Practice ( IF 1.984 ) Pub Date : 2022-01-03 , DOI: 10.1177/10497315211065418
Sara Wakefield 1 , Christopher Wildeman 2, 3
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In their provocative article, Barth and colleagues interrogate existing research on a series of claims about the child welfare system. In this reply, we focus on just one of their conclusions: that foster care placement does little, on average, to cause the poor outcomes of children who are ever placed in care. Our argument proceeds in three stages. In the first, we dispute the claim that the average effects of foster care placement on children are “settled” in any scientific sense. In the second, we note that the lack of agreement about what constitutes the appropriate counterfactual makes the idea of average effects of foster care placement in this area problematic. In the third, we problematize the idea that near-zero average effects equate to unimportant effects by showing how different types of effect heterogeneity may lead us to think differently about how the system is working.



中文翻译:

寄养安置的平均效果真的接近于零吗?

在他们的挑衅性文章中,巴特和同事质疑了有关儿童福利制度的一系列主张的现有研究。在这篇答复中,我们只关注他们的结论之一:平均而言,寄养安置几乎不会导致被寄养儿童的不良后果。我们的论证分三个阶段进行。首先,我们质疑寄养安置对儿童的平均影响在任何科学意义上都是“解决”的说法。在第二个问题中,我们注意到,对于适当的反事实的构成缺乏共识,使得该领域寄养安置的平均影响的想法存在问题。在第三个中,

更新日期:2022-01-03
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