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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 52–4649.
Child Welfare (ISSN 0009-4021) is published bimonthly by the Child Welfare League of America, Inc. Period-
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President/CEO: Christine James-Brown Board Chair: Ross Wales
Director of Publications, Steve Boehm • Editor Emeritus, Gary R. Anderson • Senior Editors, Gary Mallon and
Madelyn Freundlich • Managing Editor, Emily Shenk • Assistant Editor, Meghan Williams • Advertising Manager,
Karen Dunn
Review Board:
Julie Cooper Altman • Gary Anderson • Rosemary Avery • Amy Baker • Mary Bissell • Wendy Whiting Blome •
Hewitt B. “Rusty” Clark • Gretta Cushing • Amy D’Andrade • Martha Dore •Ilze Earner • Kathleen Coulborn Faller •
Rowena Fong • James Gaudin • Priscilla Gibson • James Gleeson • Manny Gonzalez • Sarah B. Greenblatt •
Victor Groza • Neal Halfon • Michele Hanna • Mark Hardin • Rebecca Hegar • Peg Hess • David Hussey • Ben
Kerman • Anthony Maluccio • Emily Jean McFadden • Mary McCarthy • Brad McKenzie • Edmund Mech • Eileen
Mayers Pasztor • Joan Pennell • Peter Pecora • Carol Plummer • Diane Purvin • Jini Roby • Mitchell
Rosenwald • Joseph Ryan • Gina Miranda Samuels • Karen Staller • Richard Sullivan • Lorraine Tempel •
Elizabeth Tracy • Ellen Whipple
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service; on any aspect of administration, supervision, casework, group work, community organization,
teaching, research, or interpretation; on any facet of interdisciplinary approaches to the field; or on issues
of social policy that bear on the welfare of children and their families.
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