Lorraine Foster Home Case Study

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Lorraine Rhodes, a single teenage mother who shared parenting responsibilities of little Ashley with her sister, lived in an old trailer and worked different times so they can always be home to take care of Ashley. Their home became a teen hangout, since there were not any adults around. Lorraine dated an abusive man. They had a child, but that baby died. Lorraine got pregnant again, and gave birth Ashley's brother, Luke. When Ashley was three, way too young to understand realize what was going on, she was taken away from her mother. Only to find out that she will never see her mother again. Luke and Ashley was moved into foster care, for the first of all of the foster she would live in over the next decade. Lorraine promised Ashley and Luke …show more content…
They were quickly taken away and was moved to Florida after the incident. Their home was packed full of foster babies and kids while being ruled over by mean abusive parents. Ashley and Luke was happy and excited when they were sent back to South Carolina to live with Adele. There they were satisfied for a little while until they were sent back to Florida to go to a different family. During Ashley time, she was in fourteen different foster homes in nine years, and she met up with forty-four different caseworkers. None of them paid to help foster children helped Ashley from living through terrible abuse at the hands of foster parents. Finally, a volunteer named Mary Miller took a unusual curiosity in her. she was adopted by some caring people. She decided to try it with doubts that it will not work out. she supposed that she would be back up for adoption in a short amount of time; she is frank about her problems altering her life after years of hopelessness. she also sued her worst foster parents for being too abusive, and then she worked tirelessly to help children in foster care. She has spoken to many government officials, and many other volunteer groups to change foster

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