nstructors Manual and Test Bank

I nstructor’s Manual and Test Bank (ANSWER KEY at the end of this file) for W hitelaw Downs, Moore, and McFadden Child Welfare and Family Services Policies and Practice Eig hth Edition prepared by Susan Whitelaw Downs Ernestine Moore Wayne 1 / 4

Competencies

Students will demonstrate competency in describing or explaining:

• Major demographic trends of families and children in the U.S.;
• Problems of children and young people in today’s society, as identified in the text.
• The concepts of “rights and responsibilities” as applied to parents, children, and society
• Historical roots of services to families and children.
• Family policy.
• Principles of child and family services.
• Classification of services (prevention and support, child protective services, foster care,

adoption).

• The relationship of race and ethnicity to child welfare services
• The organization of child welfare services, including public, private, and proprietary

agencies.Key Concepts

Define and explain the significance of the following (short answer questions):

ƒChildren’s Rights vs. Children’s Needs ƒIndenture ƒ“Family Continuity” as a Child Welfare Principle ƒState Boards of Charity ƒDisproportionate Racial or Ethnic Representation ƒPyramid of Services ƒPublic child welfare services ƒVoluntary child welfare services ƒDisaster Planning ƒUnited Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 37

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Multiple Choice Questions

• According to the text, the American family has been changing in all of the following

ways EXCEPT:

• There are more “Millennium Generation” children now than there were “Baby

Boomers” in 1966.

• Although the number of children is increasing, the percentage or proportion of

children in relationship to the rest of the population is going down.

• There is an unprecedented increase in the number of single-parent households.
• Increasing numbers of young persons are marrying earlier.
• A growing number of children have foreign born parents.
• All of the following were identified in the text as a major trend in child and family

services EXCEPT:

• Recognition of the need for child welfare agencies to plan for wide-spread

disasters.

• Increasing complexity of child welfare services.
• Increase in child abuse of infants.
• Globalization of child welfare.
• The text identifies all of the following as major problems of children and youth EXCEPT

for:

• Excessive computer use.
• Poverty.
• Homelessness.
• Negative peer influence.
• Violence.
• In colonial times, the system of giving meager aid to children in their own homes was

called:

• Outdoor relief.
• Indenture.
• Farming out.
• Aid to Families with Dependent Children.

5. In the nineteenth century, child welfare agencies were mainly:

• Run by the government.
• Targeted to African-American children.
• Run by private agencies.
• Focused on prevention.

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• In a case example in the text, Mike has trouble at school, his single mother is sick, his

teenage sister has a baby out of wedlock, and his brother is in reform school. This case is

presented as an example of the need for:

• Temporary Assistance to Needy Families.
• Cultural competency.
• Residual services.
• Interagency partnerships

7. Child welfare services that are financed by taxation are:

• public
• faith-based
• proprietary
• mainly prevention-oriented.

8. All of the following are Principles of Child and Family Services, except:

• A safe and permanent home is the best environment for children.
• Parents who abuse and neglect their children do not deserve to have them and the

children should always be removed from such homes.

• Children need to grow up in environments free of physical, sexual, and emotional

abuse.

• Services should work to strengthen and support family functioning.

9. Children’s needs:

• Are defined by current knowledge about child development and are not

enforceable in a court of law.

• Are the same as children’s “rights”
• Include the right to purchase liquor.
• Are enforceable in a court of law.
• The most accurate statement concerning the Supreme Court’s decisions concerning the

right of minors to have an abortion is that:

• they have the same rights as adults to an abortion
• they are barred from having abortions under any circumstances
• they can only have an abortion if their parents’ consent
• States may impose some restrictions on a minor’s rights to an abortion.
• In our society the primary right and responsibility to care for children rests with:
• the government
• parents
• the Juvenile Court
• the child welfare system

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