Kids all over the world are suffering‚ with no family‚ no parents‚ and no love. This has happened since 1636 that is over 300 years ago. There are nearly 428‚000 children in foster care in the United States that are suffering with no one to care about them no one to share their accomplishments there first word or steps with their first day of school or graduation with… they have no one. These people have been around For a long time and some of them have bad feelings about themselves and who they
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of those in foster care has been described as dynamic. While numbers may go down of those in foster care‚ the number of children of suffer either while in foster care‚ or after aging out has increased. (Scott‚ Woods). Because there are a significant number of children in the system‚ there is not enough time nor people to give the individual care and attention that is essential for each child. With the loss of the individual attention‚ there can be many detrimental consequences. Foster care can have
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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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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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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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Outcomes of Foster Care Angela Nagle COM 150 May 16‚ 2010 Michelle Vanderhoof Growing up many children think that it is normal how they are living‚ whether it is good or bad. On the bad side it could be from getting abused to not always having enough food to eat; or sleeping on the floors to sleeping in the family car. When social services finds out about something like this‚ they do their best to better the situation. One situation they try is placing children in protective custody‚ also
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“Adolescents and children that enter the foster care system are a highly traumatized population‚ with higher rates of trauma higher than the general public (Miller‚ Green‚ Fettes & Aarons 2011; Salazar‚ Thomas‚ Gowen‚ & Mark 2013). “One study found that the overall trauma rate of exposure for youth in foster care was double that of the general public and very similar to that of urban young adults and yet the rate of PTSD was higher in foster care youth‚ 18.8% compared to 8.8% of trauma exposed urban
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Do you know what you would do if you were the judge and had to decide whether Pony-boy stay with his older brother or go to foster care? I would let Pony stay with his brother‚ if I were in charge of the decision. This is because if they took him away‚ it would traumatize him cause him to be depressed. Another reason is that his foster parents could be mean. Most judges do not consider looking into the effects taking anyone away from their loved ones could cause. They also do not think about what
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Foster care is a system where a child is placed into a temporary or permanent home in order to provide proper care to children who need a home for a variety of reasons. For this cross cultural experience‚ I decided that it would be most beneficial to attend a foster child’s home and interview the direct source itself. Before this experience I expected the child to be living a completely different lifestyle from me. I also anticipated him to be severely influenced by all the changes in his life and
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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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