Foster Care Case Study

A value that adherents see through foster care is to keep the child safe and to protect them from harm. In dangerous situations they believe that a child should be taken away from a bad home environment. In addition, when the child is away from the guardians who caused that child to be placed in a foster home, it makes it possible for the adults to take care of the problems they uncovered. An interest advocates have is supporting the new foster child and to help them to not be worried or scared about the environment change. They also feel as if they need to understand what that child has overcame and gone through. Knowing information about the child would help adults to better understand the child's point of view and also why the child may act like he or she does. Another …show more content…
Many opponents believe that in some cases the child is better off staying with their family rather than the child being moved into a new one with the possibility of being moved many times. Stated by Barton and Vacca, Sasha Gray was placed in foster care at age four and when she was eighteen she left; she moved to new foster families a total of forty-two times within that fourteen year period (5). An interest that opponents share is whether or not the foster parents are there for the child or if they are actually taking in children because they receive money from the government. Acknowledged by April Capochino author of the article ¨Foster Care Need Critical N.O.,¨ Catholic charities pay foster families twelve seventy three per day to board children and fourteen seventy five per day as a salary (3). Some opponents believe foster parents are being paid to much to care for a child. They think that foster parents should be caring for them without the need of a bribe from the