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    Child Abuse In Foster Care

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    way to prevent maltreatment in the foster care system was to implicate a nurse home visitation (MacMillan el al.‚ 2009). This process was a way of getting a nurse to examine and check a child upon their visit. This Programme was paced help and report physical abuse and neglecting among children in the foster care system (MacMillan el al.‚ 2009). However‚ this process was not very affective to reduce abuse and neglect and there were no further evidence of abuse reduction. “Home-visiting program was

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    issues of neglect and abuse in the foster care system is a subject you do not hear about every day. However‚ this is a real problem that affects millions of children living in foster care or some kind of transitional care system. 75% of children in foster care prior to leaving the system will have experienced sexual abuse (Sexual Abuse: An epidemic in Foster Care Settings). According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services‚ nearly 475‚000 U.S. youth reside in foster care‚ close to 30‚000 leaves

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    Foster Care Abuse

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    Introduction There are several reasons why children enter foster care such as abandonment‚ caregiver’s death‚ domestic violence‚ medical neglect‚ parent’s incarceration‚ physical abuse‚ sexual abuse‚ truancy‚ and voluntary placement. Sadly‚ many homes have more than one of the following issues and a child enters the foster care system for numerous reasons. Annually tens of thousands of children in the United States are placed in foster care. These children are often burdened by the unprecedented levels

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    Child In Foster Care

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    happens to the youth‚ they are at the lowest of their life and they need all of the help they can get to turn their lives back into the right direction. The biggest reason for all of these negative outcomes would be placement instability. As a child in foster care‚ they are never ensured that they will live in one home. More often than not‚ youth are bounced through several different homes. Transitioning to many different homes brings the emotions of feeling unloved to an all time high. The more a

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    today’s society violence and abuse have become a huge problem. It can be mental or physical abuse. Abuse can happen in any kind of relationship: boyfriend/girlfriend‚ parent/child‚ or employer/employee. The one area of abuse caught my eye is foster parents abusing foster children. This past year I know of some personal cases where the foster parents abused the foster children and have even killed one. In the journal “Confidentiality Act to Shield Abuse in Foster Care” it states‚ “As Miguel’s brain

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    Foster Care System

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    The foster care social service system is designed to ameliorate adverse family and environmental conditions that may interfere with typical child development. Currently‚ the system provides both interim and longstanding out- of- home placement of children whose biological parents have been deemed unable to provide adequate care. The number of children being placed in the foster care system is increasing annually and unfortunately‚ most of these children have been the victims of repeated abuse and

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    Children are suffering from a hidden epidemic of child abuse and neglect. Every year more than 3 million reports of child abuse are made in the United States involving more than 6 million children (a report can include multiple children). The United States has one of the worst records among industrialized nations – losing on average between four and seven children every day to child abuse and neglect. 1‚ 2 he primary purpose of Foster Care service is to provide a safe temporary placement for

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    progression a child makes through a state welfare system. Each figure in the diagram below links to a specific decision point described in the paper‚ which begins immediately after the diagram. This chart provides a model‚ which highlights typical decision points on a child ’s journey through the current foster care system. Although the format is based on federal and common state law and practice‚ nevertheless it is only a model. Laws vary across states‚ as does the capacity and practices of child welfare

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    being shipped from one foster home to another?” Many kids get sent from home to another all the time in foster care some kids will have lived up to 10 different homes before being adopted. Lots of kids get put into foster care to never be adopted and then have no family. My topic is controversial because people have different views on how the foster care system should be ran. Although many people think the foster care program is fine as it is‚ more control is needed over how foster parents handle things

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    I could become president like every other young child does‚ and finally ventured upon my true passion. After a difficult day of finals my Freshman year‚ I drug myself down the hallway to my locker‚ as exhausted as ever. Scrolling down my Facebook timeline‚ I stumbled upon a video titled “The Foster Care System”‚ the video showed the true horrors that children have to endure every day in homes that are targeted on mooching off the system. Some foster homes provide the bare necessities for these children

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