As a counselor at a therapeutic foster care agency‚ the teens that I work with amaze me every day. They have all been through some extremely tough and trying situations and they have all in their own way managed to survive and overcome their own situation. Some lost their primary care giver and had no other family members to live with. Some have been abused; sexually‚ physically‚ emotionally or a combination of any or all and neglected by those who are "supposed" to be there for you‚ their own
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Children that are homeless can become this way for a variety of reasons. Youth can be on their own‚ with no permanent residence or even usual place to sleep. They could have also been separated from their own homeless parents and placed in foster care or living with some of their relatives. A child could be part of a family that becomes homeless‚ or even belong to a single parent. The decline in low cost housing‚ which has been declining over the last 20 years‚ could be to blame for the amount
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Harmful‚ or Just a Big Lie? Children‚ in the hands of homosexuals? Harmful? Or just a lie? For many years‚ people have been debating whether adoptive children should or should not be placed in homosexual households‚ but really the controversy is what the best is for the children? Around the United States gay adoption has been severely put down‚ but not many states have an actual law stated in their constitution against it. The more the conservative the state is‚ the higher chance of them having
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520‚000 children are in foster care and 127‚000 of those children are available to be adopted according to the North American Council of Adoption Children in St. Paul. Out of the 520‚000 children‚ only 50‚00 children will find permanent homes each year. They are yearning to have what the average American child has‚ a family. More than 14‚100 foster children are in caring homes with gay or lesbian couples. Those 520‚000 children are waiting to be loved; some may be in a foster home until they are eighteen
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taken by Canadian Aids society at early age‚ she was removed from her biological family and raised by a non-aboriginal. There are a large number of First Nation living off reserve and urban areas‚a like number of aboriginal children who are in care of foster care. A portion of these adoptees face cultural and identity confusion issues as the result of having been socialized and acculturated into a middle class society. The aboriginal leaders who believes these children are losing touch with their cultural
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Texas later in life. My desire is to work strictly within the foster care system. I want to learn the art of Social Work‚ the “ins and outs” and the “dos and don’ts”. I then want to matriculate to then supervise the Social Workers. The reason I have chosen to work in that manner‚ is because I want to learn how other Social Workers think and act. I have heard many horrendous stories of how group home leaders work and mistreat the foster children. My desire is to then train the Social Workers under
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Children in foster care should not be able to return to their parents who have committed a felony. It is unsafe for the child‚ the child is at risk to be singled out by other parents‚ and overall it is morally wrong. No child should every be able to return to their parent or parents if they are at risk in any shape or form. For a child to return to a parent or parents who have committed a felony is unsafe for the child. The parent may be mentally unstable‚ which may blur the way they think and
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Homosexuality is becoming more acceptable in today’s society; however‚ when it comes to homosexuals establishing a family‚ issues begin to arise. As of 2015‚ 27 states are opposed to homosexual adoptions due to the fact that the bible states it is a sin and individuals perceiving themselves as homosexuals will go to Hell. There is also the outlook on being raised in a homosexual family will result in the child growing up to be homosexual themselves. Although homosexual marriage is now legal across
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child’s life is the interaction between children and adults who care for them. At each of these stages the child may face conflict which must be resolved before the next stage is reached in
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I’m much more proud of being a father than being an actor. You can’t undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it. I’m staggered by the question of what it’s like to be a multimillionaire. I always have to remind myself that I am. [on how he stays in shape‚ interview in People.com‚ 10 March 2005] Mostly weight resistance training‚ almost an hour of cardio at least three times a week. I have a gym in my house in Los Angeles and a gym trailer that I can take on the road with me when
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