© 2000 Jordan Institute
for Families

Vol. 2, No. 4
July 1997

Guidelines for Separating Siblings

In her book A Child's Journey Through Placement, Vera Fahlberg advises social workers to consider separating siblings when keeping them together would

• interrupt a normal parent-child relationship

• mean that one child would not get his needs met

• maintain a destructive relationship even after attempts to normalize it

• threaten someone's safety.

Source

Fahlberg, V. I. (1991). A child's journey through placement. Indianapolis, IN: Perspectives Press, p. 275.

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