FOSTER CARE AND THE EFFECTS ON CHILDREN Foster care is care provided for children whose families are temporarily unable to care for them (Merck Manuals, 2007). This definition to me seems to simple cause of the fact that a lot of children that go into the foster care system are there longer than they should be. Knowing a few people who have been in the foster care system, they seem to make it really difficult for the biological parents to get the children back even after fulfilling the requirements by the state. This in turn affects the child negatively, causing lack of trust, depression, and other mental disturbances. Children in foster care have to face a lot of challenges. One is to go from a place you are used to and know where everything is and be placed in a home with
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Anxiety before the visit, trying to picture what the visit’s going to be like and just getting to see their parents, but then afterward they are left wondering why they didn’t get to go home with them. Why are they leaving them again? That’s when they start feeling unwanted and unloved which causes some children to lash out at the care givers. I have some friends who just got their son back after a year and a half of being in the foster care system and I see a lot of the mental disturbances listed above in that child. He is fourteen and has anger issues, thinking his parents are supposed to make it up to him and he lashes out at them a lot. He has a hard time socially for fear of being rejected. Don’t get me wrong he is a good kid, but had to grow up a little too soon I think. A lot of parents think that once their child is back in the home, they can go back to the way things were before the child was taken in the first place. This also affects the child cause they still aren’t getting what they need to be successful. They need a stable structure to feel secure in
Anxiety before the visit, trying to picture what the visit’s going to be like and just getting to see their parents, but then afterward they are left wondering why they didn’t get to go home with them. Why are they leaving them again? That’s when they start feeling unwanted and unloved which causes some children to lash out at the care givers. I have some friends who just got their son back after a year and a half of being in the foster care system and I see a lot of the mental disturbances listed above in that child. He is fourteen and has anger issues, thinking his parents are supposed to make it up to him and he lashes out at them a lot. He has a hard time socially for fear of being rejected. Don’t get me wrong he is a good kid, but had to grow up a little too soon I think. A lot of parents think that once their child is back in the home, they can go back to the way things were before the child was taken in the first place. This also affects the child cause they still aren’t getting what they need to be successful. They need a stable structure to feel secure in