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    you ever been taken by (defects) foster care. Well‚ foster care is a temporarily arrangement in which adults provide for the child or children whose birth parents are unable to care for them. To determine whether Phony boy Curtis goes to foster care or stays with his brothers will have to acquires him of staying out of jail‚ correcting his bad habits‚ and having a stable environment. One way that Phony boy Curtis goes to foster care is that he will have to stay out of jail. There will not be any

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    in the care of local authorities on 31st March 2015 and that number is said to be growing and when I child id taken into care then the responsibility of local authority to look after a child Physical‚ intellectual‚ emotional and social needs within the family home as stated by the Children’s Act 1989 and 2004. However‚ there can be times where this is not possible and the local authority like social workers and other bodies will then have to step in and protect the child and place a care order on

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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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    Family Final Project Topic: Is foster care effective? Definition: Foster care is defined as care for delinquents or neglected children usually in an institution or substitute home. Children in our foster care system receive long lasting effects of abuse and neglect but in some cases the foster care system has been proven to minimize the negative results of inappropriate use of child care. Mission: To educate society and families on the long lasting effects of foster care‚ both positive and negative

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    Blood‚ starvation and depression: would you want to experience these if you were a foster child? Imagine being slapped by your caretaker and getting dragged across a hardwood floor getting splinters just for making a small mistake as a kid. During his horrific foster care experience‚ Jennings was put through quite a few abusive institutions and homes‚ such as living with a poor family named the Carpenters. Instead of looking for an experience raising a child‚ the Carpenters were just looking to

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    States” (). Close to 32 percent of children placed in group homes are African American‚ about 15 percent of the U.S. population in foster care is under the age of 18. American Indian children made up one percent of the child population in foster care. There are many controversial issues as to why there are a substantial amount of children of color being abandoned in the child care system. To begin explaining the child welfare systems‚ lots of children are looked over due to the fact hat they are African

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    from institutional care is warranted given the benefits it provides. Description: The stigma associated with orphanages has lead policymakers in the United States to discourage the use of these institutional care facilities. The Social Security Act of 1935 authorized the first federal grants for child welfare services. Since then‚ the federal government has continued to encourage states to adopt Foster Care as their main child welfare system. The policies encouraging Foster Care are in large part

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    I entered the foster care system at age 4 due to my birth mothers drug problems. I was immediately adopted to a family of 12 before I could even understand the reality of my own life. It hit quick when I was old enough to think for myself. I began to notice how emotionally abusive the adoptive mother was. She played me and my younger blood sister against each other and made sure I knew that I was worth nothing and would never amount to anything. Dealing with such a relationship made my preteen years

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    The Foster Care Did you know that 60% of kids are stripped away from their families because of drugs? Ponyboy would be better off in the system because him and Darry keep on fighting with each other. Ponyboy in the system ‚with Soda‚ would be great. Ponyboy really likes Soda and he barely likes Darry. Other people say that Ponyboy should be in the system. Others say that he should be with Darry. Ponyboy should be in the system because he would obtain a better family and he will be very healthy

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    Most Foster Care children grow up to have behavioral and attachment issues because of the lack they are missing out from the biological parents. The question that arrises is‚ “Should children that are in the Foster Care system be eligible to be reunited with their biological parents or should they remain in the system until they have reached the legal age to make their own decisions. Although‚ to some‚ this may be an extremely tough and emotional decision‚ but I feel that Children who

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