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- Title
Has the Child Welfare Profession Discovered Nepotistic Biases?
- Authors
Daly, Martin; Perry, Gretchen
- Abstract
A major trend in foster care in developed countries over the past quarter century has been a shift toward placing children with 'kin' rather than with unrelated foster parents. This change in practice is widely backed by legislation and is routinely justified as being in the best interests of the child. It is tempting to interpret this change as indicating that the child welfare profession has belatedly discovered that human social sentiments are nepotistic in their design, such that kin tend to be the most nurturant alloparents. Arguably, however, the change in practice has been driven by demographic, economic, and political forces rather than by discovery of its benefits. More and better research is needed before we can be sure that children have actually benefitted.
- Subjects
CHILD welfare; NEPOTISM; FOSTER parents; KIN recognition; DEVELOPED countries
- Publication
Human Nature, 2011, Vol 22, Issue 3, p350
- ISSN
1045-6767
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12110-011-9116-6