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    she has to deal with on her own. This was the first experience she had dealing with abandonment. “Regardless‚ Liesel’s foster parents were waiting. The Hubermanns.”(pg.26) Liesel was placed in what would become her home and had no one she knew. Her dad was never in her life and her mom gave her up to complete strangers. Over time she managed to adjust and come to love her foster parents. Later in life the one person she was closest to left. “At just after 11 p.m. that same night‚ Max Vandenburg walked

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    Character Flaws in Keeper ‘N Me In Richard Wagamese’s Keeper ‘N Me ‚ the main character Garnet Raven is a young Native man who is taken away from his parents and put into foster care as a small child. He is later finally able to find his family after his brother contacts him many years later. Growing up‚ Garnet struggles with his Native identity and who he truly is. He lies to himself and to other people about his ethnicity and background and this results in Garnet being put into some

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    check on the welfare of children‚ if it is determined the children are in danger‚ CPS will place them in foster care. Their parents must go to court ordered classes and pass random drug tests to prove that they can provide a safe environment for their children. This process can take up to a year in some cases and in a lot of abuse cases the children are permanently placed in foster care. Foster homes are supposed to be a safe secure environment compared to where the children came from. But like anything

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    Social Injustice

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    long term effects of being removed from home‚ such as attachment issues‚ amongst many other issues that they may face. The social injustice of the child welfare system is extremely unfair and some of the children who have known foster care as a place they call home when foster care should be no more than a temporary placement. This injustice not only affects the children‚ but it affects society as a whole. These children are our future adults‚ our future president‚ or police officer. As a society‚ we

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    Darrel Harris English Composition I Arguing a Position Paper February 18‚ 2009 Protecting our Children Over the past two decades‚ child abuse cases have soared in Nebraska. And though many adults abhor the actions of the offenders in these cases. Many of them go Virtually unpunished‚ or receive a slap on the hand. The State of Nebraska has several Laws on the books to protect our children from predators‚ in and outside of the home Unfornately‚ the sentence that are

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    children in foster care. Pediatrics‚ 106 (5)‚ 1145-1150. Retrieved from EBSCOhost database Blohin‚ F. (2012‚ March 21). Who does not pay child support in Kazakhstan. The view‚ 11 (239). Retrieved from http://www.zakon.kz/4480936-kto-v-kazakhstane-alimenty-ne-platit.html Browne‚ K. (2009). The risk of harm to young children in institutional care. The Save the Children Fund. Retrieved from Google Scholar database Bruskas‚ D. (2010). Developmental health of infants and children subsequent to foster care.

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    Alternative Sentencing Program of Washington state ILA The Washington State Legislature passed the bill “the Parenting Sentencing Alternative substitute senate bill 6639” in 2010 The legislation has created two programs to help parents of minor children get intensive supervision as alternatives to incarceration: Family and Offender sentencing Alternative (FOSA) and Community Parenting Alternative (CPA). “The State saw a need to address the issue of the increasing number of minor children

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    school‚ and fighting. One day‚ CPS came and took my three brothers and me to live with foster parent but we were separated. That was because no family could take us together and also use sign language. That is why we were separated. Later Joe and my brothers moved to live with his new foster parents in White Swan. I lived with a different foster family and Joe felt anxious about living in White Swan. His new foster parent names were Sean and Faye. They were kind and friendly parents‚ and they welcomed

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    in the novel Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O’Neil. The complete loss of Baby’s innocence is built up throughout the whole novel with multiple different experiences over time. Experiences such as‚ being exposed to drugs‚ spending time in foster homes and being engaged in prostitution. Baby’s childhood is ruined due to her own actions and with the assistance of others. Baby’s first experience that causes her loss of innocence is her first experience with the use of drugs. Baby grew up with

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    LGBT Adoption

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    care in the processes of adoption and foster parenting. The Garden State allows for same-sex adoption; allows single homosexuals to adopt; and allows second parent same-sex adoption (Lifelong Adoptions‚ 2013). New Jersey has passed progressive laws and policies that prohibit discrimination charged against LGBT individuals in the adoption process (Lifelong Adoptions‚ 2013). New Jersey state law also bans discrimination against LGBT individuals in the foster parent process (Lifelong Adoptions‚ 2013)

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