Child and youth welfare aims to promote the development of young people, protect them from dangers, reduce disadvantages, advise guardians, and create positive living conditions for young people and their families. This is a field of public responsibility for the upbringing of children and adolescents. Based on current professional, legal, and economic frameworks, Graf conducts a comprehensive analysis of social work to highlight the ethical-normative crisis in today's child and youth welfare. Against the backdrop of increasingly complex ethical conflict areas, not only are misdevelopments and shortcomings identified, but relevant reform approaches are also developed by referring to pertinent concepts from both theoretical and applied ethics.