Family Reunification—Concepts and Challenges

Achieving timely reunification.

In the context of child welfare, family reunification refers to the services that are provided for purposes of returning children who have been placed in out-of-home care to their families of origin. Family reunification is the primary permanency goal for the majority of children who have been placed temporarily outside of their homes. This literature review focuses on the federal Child and Fam...

Eli Student Voices

In this paper, I try to identify and explain how certain factors are obstructing the reunification of North and South Korea. This paper refers to eight published articles that touch on diverse negative factors which affect the Korean reunification. There are many factors to consider, such as political interests, conflicting views of the North and the South toward the reunification, and the long...

The Reunification of Very Young Children from Foster Care

FamilY reunification is a central strategy for family preservation. Although child welfare services have arguably relied too heavily on family reunification to preserve families-and should more often prevent any separation of parent and child with in-home services-the incidence of children with a first entry into foster care has recently reached levels equivalent to those a decade earlier (Goer...

The Effects of Socioeconomic Vulnerability, Psychosocial Services, and Social Service Spending on Family Reunification: A Multilevel Longitudinal Analysis

Socio-environmental factors such as poverty, psychosocial services, and social services spending all could influence the challenges faced by vulnerable families. This paper examines the extent to which socioeconomic vulnerability, psychosocial service consultations, and preventative social services spending impacts the reunification for children placed in out-of-home care. This study uses a mul...

The Challenges of a Post-Reunification Korea: Lessons from Reconciled Civil Conflicts