Informative Essay: When Children Become Numbers Alex Wahl Sullivan University Eng 102 Urzuablaul‚ Allison 4/30/2012 The Foster Care systems that are in operation today are very minimally funded and provide a very low success rate of the children that come out of the foster child system in most states. Because of these facts‚ the media labels this system and not only a last chance scenario but also almost as a punishment for children because they were not adopted or have
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Enhancing the Quality of Parental Legal Representation Act of 2013 is a newly proposed policy that is currently being reviewed in the House committee on Ways and Means. This policy is designed to aid in resolving the issue of children being in foster care for longer periods than necessary by providing the parents involved in the child welfare system with proper quality legal representation. As this issue and policy are reviewed it is necessary to analyze the nature of the cause of the problem‚ what
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his/her adoptive family‚ but this does not happen in the case of fostering. Foster care‚ also known as out-of-home-care‚ is a temporary service provided for the welfare of children who cannot live with their families. Children in foster care centres may live with their relatives or foster parents until they are adopted or are grown up and capable of living on their own. People often have several questions related to foster care and their services. Some of the most frequently
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The Importance of the Foster Care System According to childwelfare.gov (2012)‚ there are about 400‚000 children in foster homes at any given time. The foster care system in the United States is a critical placement system for children in difficult family situations. Unfortunately‚ it has a bad reputation and the potential to damage the children involved further. Foster care‚ a type of out-of-home placement‚ is a government program created to be a “temporary injunction to
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research of foster parenting was successful because I was able to answer all my research questions‚ and I found a lot about foster parenting. From all of my research‚ the three most important ideas I learned are the role of how to ba foster parent‚ not right to fail the children in the foster care system‚ and most of the children in foster care are getting abused. The first thing I learned is about is a foster parents role. A foster parents role is to make sure that they are helping the foster children
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The challenges of being in foster care are many. Foster parents are expected to provide a safe environment and care for the children placed within their homes. Unfortunately‚ this does not always occur and some children are abused and often put in a worse situation than they were previously in. A study was done containing maltreated children and nonmaltreated in foster care homes to determine the research question “whether selected physical health‚ mental health‚ or behavioral child characteristics
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and improving how professionals can ease the strain on foster parents. Foster parents are in a role where they are required to frequently engage with children who have experienced crisis need additional training and support (Taylor-Richardson‚ Heflinger‚ & Brown‚ 2006). Children coming out of crisis often externalize their trauma through emotional and behavioral responses‚ child welfare professionals should be effectively preparing foster parents to experience these behaviors and to cope with
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From Foster Care to College- Perceptions of Young Adults on Their Academic Success Steve J. Rios‚ Ed.D. Florida Atlantic University‚ USA Abstract: Perceptions of college students‚ all former foster youth‚ regarding influences that impacted their academic attainment are described. Themes involve external interactions and internal influences‚ including a newly identified set of internal characteristics‚ “success strengths‚” that promote college attainment. The Foster Youth Academic Achievement
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Being A Foster Parent Being A Foster Parent By: Marnicia Moody 9/7/2014 ENG 121 English Composition I Instructor: Sarah Young pg 1 Being A Foster Parent Being a foster parent is a choice that I made with a lot of support from my family and friends. I have always wanted to adopt but never knew I could be a foster parent at such a young age or without having a husband. In August of 2013 Telaunda‚ my close neighbor and friend‚ put
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Adoption vs. Foster Parenting When I had cable TV‚ I used to watch a show on the Learning Channel‚ called "An Adoption Story". The show followed the story of a different couple each time‚ as they adopted a child. It was beautiful to see a childless couple be able to adopt a child of their own. The love and joy was the same as if they had given birth to the child. Adoption is truly a blessing‚ both for the childless couples‚ and for the birth mother searching for a loving home for her baby. I always
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