What is in the future for Child and Family Welfare services

Maluccio, Anthony N.

The Future of Child and Family
Welfare: Selected Readings


I thought this article present both some really good and unlikely possibilities for the future child and family welfare systems. This article is a selection of readings that present possible problems, solutions, and changes that can be made to the child and family welfare systems. These short readings include topics on the future of child protection, politics of child abuse in America, the general challenges and the welfare of children, the future of family foster care, orphanages, and research agenda for child welfare. The article was very well organized. Each topic had its own section and place in the article. It is also organized in a way that each summary of a topic leads to the following one. I think the purpose of the literature review was to provide an overview of research relating to the topic of child welfare. As for the critical analysis I didn't really feel that the author really didn't analyzed the findings of other researchers, it was more just a presentation of what other authors thought on their perspective topics. In that sense I cannot say that there were any issues in the authors (Maluccio) critical thinking. As for the many other authors presented in the review I do fell some violations were made. For example one summary discussed the issue of child protection and that the public should be involve. This may be a lapse in judgement because at any given time there is a possibility of a child abuser being in the community. It doesn't seem plausible to put trust in the local community to responsible for the child's welfare.