Foster Children, Rights and the Law: Best Interest, Normalcy and the Welfare System

This book discusses child wishes, rights and participation in the foster care system. It discusses the two major legal frameworks, best interest and normalcy, for which foster care decisions are made and how those frameworks might shape how child welfare professionals view and interpret children’s rights and participation.

Matthew Trail is a Research Fellow with the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Germany, and a former U.S. legal aid child welfare care attorney