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The Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children
Author(s) -
Callanan Brendan,
Wendell Mitchell
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
juvenile justice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-6988
pISSN - 0093-7231
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-6988.1975.tb01086.x
Subject(s) - suite , welfare , citation , political science , library science , law , computer science
THE INTERSTATE COMPACT ON THE PLACEMENT OF CHILDREN: TIME TO RETHINK A GREAT IDEA* Larry S. Jenkins, Wood Crapo LLC, U.S.A. Lance D. Rich, Wood Crapo LLC, U.S.A. 2 The Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (“ICPC”) was conceived, in theory, as a mechanism to facilitate the interstate placement of children, while at the same time protecting those children, their birth parents, and adoptive parents by ensuring that the laws and proper procedures were followed. As it has evolved, however, the ICPC has not been much of a protector of children, and in the context of private agency and independent adoptions has become an impediment to those adoptions because of arbitrary standards imposed by ICPC administrators in the various states not found in the ICPC itself. This paper briefly examines the ICPC and the problem that exists, the current movement afoot to attempt to correct the problem, and then proposes a change to the ICPC that could be a solution to the problem.