Deck 11: Children and Families

Question 1

One of the few times the federal government took a preventive approach to child and family welfare was with passage of:

A)The Temporary Assistance to Need Families Act
B)The Family Care Act
C)The Family and Medical Leave  Act
D)The Adoption and Foster Care Assistance Act
E)The Child Welfare Act of 1965

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The majority of recipients of public assistance through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)program are young children

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The first federal legislation for child welfare dates back to the

A)Colonial years
B)Progressive Era
C)Early nineteen hundreds
D)War on Poverty
E)Early 1980s

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Discuss the relationship between income and education.  Are they linked? If so, how?  What are barriers that prevent a child from obtaining an adequate education?

Question 5

Family preservation, child care, and parenting skills services are examples of:

A)supplementary services
B)substitutive services
C)secondary services
D)supportive  services
E)none of these services

Question 6

The major social welfare program interventions in response to child abuse and neglect include all but:

A)foster care
B)family preservation
C)adoption
D)TANF
E)crisis nurseries

Question 7

The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 was a result of:

A)increased institutionalization of children
B)greater numbers of children spending longer amounts of time in  foster care
C)increased adoption of children
D)increased children with special needs
E)increased number of licensed foster care homes

Question 8

What is the difference between a residual approach to social welfare policies and programs for children and families, and an institutional approach?  Which is preferable and why?  Give an example of each.

Question 9

The TANF program includes

A)SNAP/Food assistance
B)Medicare
C)Educational services for children
D)Support for parents to attend 4 year colleges
E)Child support enforcement

Question 10

The Medicaid program

A)Is rarely used by children
B)Is a minor medical insurance program for poor children
C)Is a social insurance health program, so only children of working parents are covered
D)Spends the majority of its funds to cover children
E)Spends far less on children than the proportion of them in the program

Question 11

Permanency planning:

A)stresses foster care as a temporary service
B)was developed through the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare  Act
C)expands the use of foster care
D)dates back to the turn of the century created by child welfare advocates
E)stresses CPS workers maintaining seniority in protective service work

Question 12

Describe the key goals of the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980.  How was the actual impact of the legislation the same or different from the intended impact?

Question 13

The term "battered child syndrome" was developed in the 1990's due to the increase in reported cases of child abuse and neglect

Question 14

Eligibility for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)includes enforcement of child support

Question 15

While about 25% of all households with children and youth are headed by a single female parent,

A)for African American families the rate is twice as high
B)for Hispanic families the rate is lower than the national average
C)for white families the rate is higher than the national average
D)for Native American families the rate is lower than the national average
E)for Asian American families the rate is twice as high

Question 16

Which of the following does NOT provide food and nutrition support for children

A)CHIP
B)School Breakfast Program
C)School Lunch Program
D)WIC
E)SNAP

Question 17

Foster care and adoption programs are institutional approaches to child welfare services

Question 18

Head Start is a comprehensive education and anti-poverty program which provides services to all eligible low-income children

Question 19

Family preservation services are designed to help families alleviate crisis that might lead to out-of-home placement of children

Question 20

There are six key historical periods which firmly established the role of the federal government in child welfare.  Choose one and describe the significant social welfare policy developments and the programs which resulted.

Question 21

Achieving permanent solutions for placement of children was emphasized with passage of the Adoption and Safe Families Act in 1997.  What are the strengths and weaknesses of stressing adoption for children in care of the state?