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Citizens' views in four jurisdictions on placement policies for maltreated children

Author(s) -

Skivenes Marit,

Thoburn June

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

child and family social work

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.912

H-Index - 57

eISSN - 1365-2206

pISSN - 1356-7500

DOI - 10.1111/cfs.12369

Subject(s) - vignette , legitimacy , child protection , politics , context (archaeology) , political science , dimension (graph theory) , public opinion , public administration , public relations , psychology , social psychology , law , geography , mathematics , archaeology , pure mathematics

Citizens' opinions on child protection public policy are a key dimension of the legitimacy of a political order. We have conducted a survey vignette on a representative sample of citizens ( N = 4,003) in England, Finland, Norway, and California, USA. The findings show that citizens' opinions are clearly in favour of adoption (75%) rather than long‐term foster care (25%). Context may partly explain the findings, as the responses of the majority of Anglo‐American respondents are in line with practice in their countries but for the Nordic respondents, there is a substantial discrepancy between citizens' opinions and on‐going child protection practices.

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