According to the Child Protective Services procedure, ones a child experiences abuse or neglect they will be removed from their present environment and placed in a foster home till they can figure out the best interest of the child. If one child is neglected they take them all not only the child abused, this is another important approach of CPS. So presently looking at the circumstances of a confirm indication of sexual abuses and neglect the children need to be removed from their birth home.
2. Why might out-of-home placement have worked for Brenda's siblings but not for her?
Out-of-home could not work for Brenda because all the homes they provided have …show more content…
Why might Brenda have more significant negative behaviors than her siblings?
I feel that the expected care or love her siblings might be receiving may not have been provided to her and most people may view her like the trouble child by refusing to give her the attention and care she needed, this will be a continuous agitation because she does not feel safe, welcomed or loved.
4. Once she had aged out of the child welfare system, why would Brenda return to her birth mother where her abuse began?
Brenda may have returned to her birth mother because she longs for the need of a mother figure that will express more compassion and fill the gap of her loneliness; and it may be that the abuser is no longer living with the mother anymore that why she decided to go back home.
5. Should family preservation have been tried with the birth family initially? 1-2 pages {Yes, another of my "real" cases.}
According to Crosson-Tower (2013, p.216), family preservation is about enabling families to replace dysfunctional behaviors with behaviors that promote family stability and healthy child rearing. I strongly feel that family preservation techniques should have been tried in Brenda family case, for more 13years all the children have been living in one foster home or