Ac know ledg ments
The authors gratefully acknowledge the foresight and dedication to research
of Mr. Bill Baccaglini and Dr. Mel Schneiderman of the New York Found-
ling Hospital, as well as of Nan Dale, formerly of the Children’s Village. We
are also indebted to our team at Columbia University Press, including Lau-
ren Docket, our editor. We gratefully acknowledge the many child welfare
researchers who have taught and inspired us over the years, especially Trudy
Festinger and Fred Wulczyn. Their groundbreaking work and lifetime com-
mitment to high-quality child welfare research has set the standard for the
rest of us. And, fi nally, we acknowledge the contributions of child welfare
program staff and the clients themselves, for whose benefi t child welfare re-
search is conducted.