The Foster Care System
The foster care system is a temporary arrangement where adults provide care for children whose parents can no longer care for them (National Adoption Center, 2016). There are two issues with the foster care system.
One issue is that children are being placed into foster homes that are unsuitable. This causes many problems amongst the children’s well-being. Some foster children are being placed into homes that house abusive behavior by the adults or children that already inhabit the home. The article, “Abuse in Foster Care”, tells of a chilling event that happened in Texas through foster care. The article states that children were placed in a home that starved them. The children were at the ages of four and five years …show more content…
Children who have cultural backgrounds should be placed with families of the same or similar background. This is because children who are not placed in with the right families of ethnic culture, may begin to lose the education pertained to the roots of where they came from. Social workers do not have much training when it comes to cultural backgrounds (Gilligan, 2009, p. 94). Social workers should have enough training in cultural backgrounds to be able to ask appropriate questions so that children can be placed into proper care with the same cultural background. (Schreiber, 2010) Ensuring this will allow the children to attach themselves to their cultural background and have a piece of themselves to hold on …show more content…
This theory states that a child or children have a physical attachment to at least one primary caregiver. Theory allows the caregiver and the child to have a deep and emotional bond toward each other. Attachment does not have to be mutual, one person can be attached to the other. John Bowlby first developed this theory in the late sixties (Mcleod, 2009). The Origins of the attachment theory began in the 1930’s. John Bowlby was employed as a psychiatrist in London. He treated many emotionally disturbed children. Bowlby began to focus on the relationship between mother and child. He studied the children’s social, emotional, and cognitive development in relationship with the caregiver (Mcleod, 2009). While studying child-mother relationship, Bowlby began to consider the importance of attachment of a child to their caregiver. This began to form his belief between early infant separation from their mothers and the child later developing maladjustment, which eventual led him to develop his attachment theory (Mcleod, 2009). While Bowlby worked alongside James Robertson, he discovered that when children are separated from their caregiver, they experience great distress. Bowlby found that the children still showed distress even when other caregivers nurtured them the same way as their primary caregiver (Mcleod,
The foster care system is a temporary arrangement where adults provide care for children whose parents can no longer care for them (National Adoption Center, 2016). There are two issues with the foster care system.
One issue is that children are being placed into foster homes that are unsuitable. This causes many problems amongst the children’s well-being. Some foster children are being placed into homes that house abusive behavior by the adults or children that already inhabit the home. The article, “Abuse in Foster Care”, tells of a chilling event that happened in Texas through foster care. The article states that children were placed in a home that starved them. The children were at the ages of four and five years …show more content…
Children who have cultural backgrounds should be placed with families of the same or similar background. This is because children who are not placed in with the right families of ethnic culture, may begin to lose the education pertained to the roots of where they came from. Social workers do not have much training when it comes to cultural backgrounds (Gilligan, 2009, p. 94). Social workers should have enough training in cultural backgrounds to be able to ask appropriate questions so that children can be placed into proper care with the same cultural background. (Schreiber, 2010) Ensuring this will allow the children to attach themselves to their cultural background and have a piece of themselves to hold on …show more content…
This theory states that a child or children have a physical attachment to at least one primary caregiver. Theory allows the caregiver and the child to have a deep and emotional bond toward each other. Attachment does not have to be mutual, one person can be attached to the other. John Bowlby first developed this theory in the late sixties (Mcleod, 2009). The Origins of the attachment theory began in the 1930’s. John Bowlby was employed as a psychiatrist in London. He treated many emotionally disturbed children. Bowlby began to focus on the relationship between mother and child. He studied the children’s social, emotional, and cognitive development in relationship with the caregiver (Mcleod, 2009). While studying child-mother relationship, Bowlby began to consider the importance of attachment of a child to their caregiver. This began to form his belief between early infant separation from their mothers and the child later developing maladjustment, which eventual led him to develop his attachment theory (Mcleod, 2009). While Bowlby worked alongside James Robertson, he discovered that when children are separated from their caregiver, they experience great distress. Bowlby found that the children still showed distress even when other caregivers nurtured them the same way as their primary caregiver (Mcleod,