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For children in foster care, they propose reducing the number of children placed in foster care by keeping them at home more often, and for increasing the quality of foster parents through better training and support. [...] These Alternatives to arrest and prosecution, especially for policies aim to counteract the negative developmental minor offenses, would reduce the reach of the justice effects of parental incarceration, foster care, and system and keep families intact. [...] In their Future of Children article, “Parental effects might be to make visitor waiting areas and Incarceration and Children’s Wellbeing,” Kristin visiting rooms in prison and jail more child-friendly, Turney and Rebecca Goodsell show that parental thus enhancing the quality of in-person visits between incarceration has been linked to a wide range of children and their parents. [...] It would be naïve to think that these relatively Two broad reforms would improve the quality of few programs can turn around the outcomes of foster care: reducing the number of children placed in child abuse and neglect in the United States on foster care by keeping them at home more often, and a large scale. [...] Sometimes, these studies, many of the highest quality and conducted services also involve the biological parents, in an under real-world conditions, show that MST has at attempt to promote communication both between 4 THE FUTURE OF CHILDREN the child and the biological parents and between now being conducted in every area of social policy: the biological and foster parents.