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    Generally‚ when a child is raised in a broken home‚ foster care placement is an ideal option posed from the Department of Family Services (DFS). Foster care is group home or private home in which a minor is placed through the DFS and cared for from a foster parent. A child is placed in foster care when family circumstances endanger a child or the parent in unable to sufficiently provide the child with enough care. Within the inability to provide for care‚ important factors are child abuse‚ neglect‚ and

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    client’s present problem is? The intake form for a client to admit into a Therapeutic Foster Care home involves a set of questions that are designed to learn more about the client from their point of view. The client’s agency sends a referral that states why the client is being referred which includes past and current behaviors and placements. The referral goes into greater detail about the client and their history of care. The questionnaire that is given at the intake allows the client to elaborate of

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    History of Foster Care in the U.S.:  Foster care is the home placement of children living in situations considered to be in an at risk environment. Abuse and neglect are usually the main causes for the removal of a child from the home. Change of home care is generally intended for temporary purposes to for the primary care giver to regain stability. Provisional interference is the initial intent when removing a child from the home but isn ’t always the result depending on the severity of exposure

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    Effect of Foster Care on Children Human Development March 30‚ 2011 Introduction/ Problem Statement Each year 542‚000 children nationwide live temporarily with foster parents‚ while their own parents struggle to overcome an addiction to alcohol‚ drugs‚ illness‚ financial hardship or other difficulties (Mennen‚ Brensilver‚ & Trickett‚ 2010.) The maltreatment they experienced at home‚ the shock of being separated from their birth parents‚ and the uncertainty they face as they enter the foster care

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    childhood 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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    The Effects of Foster Care Placement on Young Children’s Mental Health Beth Troutman‚ Ph.D.‚ Susan Ryan‚ M.A.‚ and Michelle Cardi‚ M.A. University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Introduction Young children are more likely than older children to be placed in foster care and to spend a larger proportion of their life in the foster care system (Goerge & Wulczyn‚ 1998). In a recent review of foster care in several states‚ the incidence of placement in foster care for children under age 5 was double

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    Foster Care in the United States Sue King Liberty University Abstract The history of foster care in the United States started with orphan trains and the Children’s Aid Society founded by Charles Loring Brace. Recent research describes the child welfare system as an organization that provides service to helpless children in need. This paper will discuss foster care as it is relates to safety‚ permanency‚ and wellbeing of children in need The role of a foster parent and the process of loss

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    documented example of foster care in the colony of Jamestown. This was the first but certainly not the last unsuccessful case of foster care in the US. The measure of success for foster care can be many things. Society measures success by the number of children who become model citizens; however‚ the fact that nearly 60 percent are convicted of felonies later in life deems the foster care system in the United States unsuccessful. The perfect world is truly a world without the foster system; however‚

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    because of the lack of reporting that goes on. (MacMillan el al.‚ 2009). Another 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

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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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