November/December 2009

Volume 18, Number 6

Features

What Makes a Family?

A Closer Look at Gay Adoption

Residential Services in Transition

Agencies are meeting the challenge by using evidence-based practices and community-based care

A Child's Rights

As the Convention on the Rights of the Child celebrates 20 years as international law, advocates call for U.S. ratification

Balancing Work & Life

How agencies can create a worker-friendly environment

Departments

• Leadership Lens

• Spotlight On

• National Newswire

• Down to Earth Dad

Parents should be wary of giving children empty praise

• Exceptional Children

Easy physical education adaptations for home and school

• CWLA Short Takes

• End Notes

• One On One

An interview with Lily Eagle Dorman Colby, Foster Youth Outreach Coordinator

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