What's Fair in Child Welfare? Parent Knowledge, Attitudes, and Experiences.

ABSTRACT: Parents play a critical role in the progression and outcomes of juvenile dependency (child welfare court) cases. Yet, very little is known about these parents' knowledge, attitudes, and experiences. We examined legal understanding and attitudes among 201 parents involved in ongoing dependency cases in California and Florida via semi-structured, in-person interviews. We expected parents' understanding to be low and attitudes to be negative, particularly among parents of color and low SES parents. We expected greater dependency understanding to be related to more positive justice attitudes, and procedural and distributive justice attitudes to be indistinguishable in this population. Findings partially confirmed expectations. Parents' understanding of the system was low, especially among pare

SUBMITTER: Cleveland KC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10088555 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature