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    or become foster parents and how to handle those challenges. In our reading this week‚ I discovered some reason why parents want to adopt or become foster parents. One of such reasons is that of infertility‚ this is one of the major reasons because it affects both men and women. Male for example may have problem with sperm production or the woman may have problem with fertility as the case may be‚ the couple can decide to go for adoption or to become a foster parent. I found that foster and adopted

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    Foster Care Youth and School Performance The issue under review is the academic under-performance of foster care youth and the possible interventions that are available to improve school performance of foster care youth. Foster care youth are not only at risk of academic failure- they are in fact performing far behind their normative peers (Zetlin & Weinberg‚ 2003). Foster care youth are faced with many risk factors and a lack of protective factors that lead to their lower school performance

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    Foster Care: A Case Study

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    Social workers have played a vital role in foster care since foster care for children was created. Ensuring that every child has the opportunity to live in a happy and safe environment is the foundation of what foster care stands for. According to Bruskas (2008)‚ the term foster care refers to all out-of-home placements for children that have been removed from the home of their parents. These children may be placed in the certified foster home of a non-relative‚ within the home of relatives‚ or

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    The relationship between a social worker and the children they represent in the foster care system evolves many different emotional connections. Social workers provide counseling and direction to people in crisis. Their clients may vary from the young and older unemployed to young children who are in need of foster homes right on down to the elderly people who have no one to care for them to provide for them or even someone to love them. They try to better the clients by helping them obtain government

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    often the most stable person in their lives is their caseworker. “Traumatic experiences and an increased susceptibility for further wounds from unstable environments created in foster care continue to increase the vulnerability of this already fragile population” (Jones Harden‚ 2004‚ p.30). Caring for children and youth in foster or substitute care can be truly complicated and demanding. When a child is in custody the state is to assume full responsibility for a child‘s well-being and permanency. Children

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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 System: Children without families SOC 331: Social Justice and Ethics Bernie Colon November 14‚ 2011 Raising children is one of the most important responsibilities in any society. Today‚ working parents have many options‚ but what about those children who have neither a mother nor father? What about those children who come from broken and abusive homes? In such cases there are often few choices. Parentless children may be placed in orphanages or in foster homes. Ideally‚ foster care

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    their child in foster care is only a temporary solution in order to stabilize the family and protect the child. Legally‚ once the child is in state custody‚ the parents no longer have control of what is going to happen to their child. Although the parents maintain their rights‚ the state now provide and maintain the welfare of that child while the parent(s) complete the goals given to them to regain custody (Koocher‚ 1990). The child also has rights while they are placed in foster care. They have

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    Treschl English 1410 6 May 2011 Foster Care: The Bad the Good and the Solution The father is an alcoholic‚ the mother is perfectly fine and the child shows no signs of abuse‚ neglect or foul treatment; however Dad came to school intoxicated one day‚ now as a social worker you have to get involved and decide what to do. RRRemoving the child from the home has to be the best idea right? The home is unsafe and the child is in danger t the best idea must be foster care. However did you consider

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    Though the system has its pros‚ it also has his cons but there are solutions being made to solve some of these foster care problems. Caseworkers having too many children to keep a record of‚ children’s placement being moved around too much‚ and even bad experiences with the system‚ in general‚ are all problems being faced in foster care. Some things are being done to help make things easier for both the child and caseworkers’ side of the problems. There are new apps being made to help caseworkers

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