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On the basis of a 14-year follow-up study of 268 infants in residential care, the authors evaluate the relative merits of adoption, foster care, return to parents or extended family. They stress the significance of the absentee parent, of social work intervention, the advantages of late adoption and make a case for a new look at residential group care as a viable alternative for dependent children in placement.Weiner, Anita is the author of 'Expanding the Options in Child Placement Israel's Dependent Children in Care from Infancy to Adulthood' with ISBN 9780819175663 and ISBN 0819175668.
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