Foster Care: A Social Injustice The United States foster care system is classified as a social injustice in the following ways: * Once a child in foster care turns 18‚ they age out of the system. This means that they no longer receive help from Child Protective Services. (CPS) * Children in foster care are often treated unfairly because of their background and health problems. Many children end up in shelters or foster homes that don’t take care of them. * Biological parents of foster
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child welfare‚ especially those who are removed from their family of origin and placed in out-of-home care‚ often present with complex and serious physical‚ mental health‚ developmental‚ and psychosocial problems rooted in childhood adversity and trauma. As such‚ they are designated as children with special health care needs. There are many barriers to providing high-quality comprehensive health care services to children and adolescents whose lives are characterized by transience and uncertainty.
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test better than kids who are thrown into foster care. Foster care hurts the children more than it helps. Limitations force the kids into a specific lifestyle and doesn’t give them their imagination they deserve. Foster care hurts the children just as much as it helps. It’s not right for the kids to be raised through terrible conditions while they watch other classmates have normal lives. “More than 250‚000 children in the U.S. enter the foster care system every year.” States the author of website
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Family Final Project Topic: Is foster care effective? Definition: Foster care is defined as care for delinquents or neglected children usually in an institution or substitute home. Children in our foster care system receive long lasting effects of abuse and neglect but in some cases the foster care system has been proven to minimize the negative results of inappropriate use of child care. Mission: To educate society and families on the long lasting effects of foster care‚ both positive and negative
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Foster Care What is foster care and why would kids be placed in it? Foster Care is where minors are placed in a temporary home with a foster parent or parents. The placement is run through the government or a social service agency. “Most kids go into foster care or go to a foster family because his or her mom or dad has a problem with drugs or alcohol.” (“Foster Care”).“Other children are removed from their homes due to abuse or neglect and placed in Foster Care.” (“The Future of Children”). People
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Foster Care Youth and School Performance The issue under review is the academic under-performance of foster care youth and the possible interventions that are available to improve school performance of foster care youth. Foster care youth are not only at risk of academic failure- they are in fact performing far behind their normative peers (Zetlin & Weinberg‚ 2003). Foster care youth are faced with many risk factors and a lack of protective factors that lead to their lower school performance
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Many people are misinformed when it comes to foster care and its issues and successes. To be able to understand foster care one must be able to understand the process. It begins with the child’s biological parents. A child can be withdrawn for abuse or neglect‚ or the child can have a minor misdemeanor(s) against them and can be placed in foster care rather than juvenile detention. A call by the Child Welfare Services is then made to the foster families in the counties and surrounding counties. Then
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color suffer due to the state of crisis in the U.S child welfare system. “Data have shown that children of color are disproportionately represented in the child welfare system in the United States” (). Close to 32 percent of children placed in group homes are African American‚ about 15 percent of the U.S. population in foster care is under the age of 18. American Indian children made up one percent of the child population in foster care. There are many controversial issues as to why there are a substantial
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from institutional care is warranted given the benefits it provides. Description: The stigma associated with orphanages has lead policymakers in the United States to discourage the use of these institutional care facilities. The Social Security Act of 1935 authorized the first federal grants for child welfare services. Since then‚ the federal government has continued to encourage states to adopt Foster Care as their main child welfare system. The policies encouraging Foster Care are in large part
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Blood‚ starvation and depression: would you want to experience these if you were a foster child? Imagine being slapped by your caretaker and getting dragged across a hardwood floor getting splinters just for making a small mistake as a kid. During his horrific foster care experience‚ Jennings was put through quite a few abusive institutions and homes‚ such as living with a poor family named the Carpenters. Instead of looking for an experience raising a child‚ the Carpenters were just looking to
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