Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Public Apathy and Government Parsimony: A Review of Child Welfare in Canada -- 2 Child Neglect and Abuse -- 3 Poverty and Child Welfare -- 4 Child Sexual Abuse: A Child Welfare Perspective -- 5 The Special Needs of Adolescents: Observations of a Physician -- 6 The Legal Process of Bringing Children into Care in British Columbia -- 7 Native Children, Child Welfare, and the Colonization of Native People -- 8 Substitute Care: The Range of Responses -- 9 Permanent Planning for Children in Care -- 10 Subsidized Adoption -- 11 The Berger Commission Report on the Protection of Children: The Impact on Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect -- 12 Preventive Approaches to Child Welfare -- 13 Approaches to Family Treatment -- 14 Day Care in Canada -- 15 The Child Welfare Programme of the Spallumcheen Indian Band in British Columbia -- 16 Children's Rights: An Evaluation of the Controversy -- 17 The Dynamics of Child Welfare: A Report of a Study in Progress -- 18 The Challenge of Child Welfare -- Selected Reading -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.