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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“More than half a million children are in foster care in the United States today—roughly double the number who were in foster care in the mid-1980s‚ according to the Child Welfare League of America (Nakyanzi).” Kids being placed into foster care are kids who have been abused and neglected by their own loved ones‚ and instead of helping the kids mend the broken family‚ they pull them apart by sending the kids to foster home after foster home. Foster care was meant to help and protect kids from abuse
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Foster care isn’t a perfect system but the government tries its best to make it work for the children. Foster children enter the system because of abuse or neglect from their families. Over six hundred seventy thousand children spent time in foster care in 2015. Dismally‚ teenagers are the hardest children to place with families in foster care (Beam‚ 2013). Permanent families usually want a young child rather than a teenager. While in foster care‚ nearly half of the children live in institutions
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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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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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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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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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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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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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