Finding Fosters Forever Families
‘“WAVELAND, Miss. -- In 2003, a tiny girl weighing little more than 20 pounds arrived at an emergency shelter here on the gulf coast, after being shuttled between five foster homes and youth shelters in three months."Who's the baby?" Terry Latham, the director of the shelter, recalled asking. "I'm no baby," the girl shouted, her ribs visible in her emaciated body. "I'm 4." The girl, identified as Olivia Y., who suffered from profound malnourishment and possibly sexual abuse, would become one of 13 children whose experiences formed a class-action lawsuit in 2004 against the state's Division of Family and Children's Services for "failing in its duty" to protect its own children.”’ Every year thousands of foster …show more content…
Once a parent is declared unfit for parenting by the government, their children are whisked away and placed into the system. This system is much different from the adoption process, where a parent or guardian chooses to put them up for adoption. Growing up in the system can have long term effects on children and young adults, some of those effects are PTSD, depression, anxiety, and many other disorders. The question I ask is; what do those long term effects look like and what is being done to improve the system?
Every year, children ages 1 month to 18 years, from all types of different backgrounds are tossed into the bin of misfit children, from which the government decided were unfit parents, and every year a good amount of them are placed into the homes complete strangers. These children come from broken homes, parents with drug addictions, alcoholics, abusers, and ones who just couldn’t provide for their child. In Jeanne Whalen’s article, “The Children of the Opioid Crisis”, she describes the inundate and increasing amount of children being referred to foster facilities. One of the leading causes of government lead child …show more content…
In Garrett Therolf article “The Child Mill”, he describes the deficient reality of where a child goes once a home is found. There are two roads, privately run, or state-supervised facilities. THey both have their pros and cons with the ability for children and inadequate families to fall through the cracks but in The Wolf's article recent statistics have shown that, “Those living in homes run by private agencies were about a third more likely to be the victims of serious physical, emotional or sexual abuse than children in state-supervised foster family homes, according to a Times analysis of more than 1 million hotline investigations over a recent three-year period.” (Garret). State foster homes are scarce and running out of families to foster their children under the government jurisdiction, and some people have even started looking to privately owned agencies to take care of their children, but the downside to this is that the statistics are much higher in forms of abuse than a state run facility. Privately owned agencies do not have the same standards to uphold as a government agency would have in ways of keeping tabs on families and how he child is reacting in its newly adjusting environment. On the Contrary in Mikel Chavers article he merely focuses on the stories that work out or “Forever
‘“WAVELAND, Miss. -- In 2003, a tiny girl weighing little more than 20 pounds arrived at an emergency shelter here on the gulf coast, after being shuttled between five foster homes and youth shelters in three months."Who's the baby?" Terry Latham, the director of the shelter, recalled asking. "I'm no baby," the girl shouted, her ribs visible in her emaciated body. "I'm 4." The girl, identified as Olivia Y., who suffered from profound malnourishment and possibly sexual abuse, would become one of 13 children whose experiences formed a class-action lawsuit in 2004 against the state's Division of Family and Children's Services for "failing in its duty" to protect its own children.”’ Every year thousands of foster …show more content…
Once a parent is declared unfit for parenting by the government, their children are whisked away and placed into the system. This system is much different from the adoption process, where a parent or guardian chooses to put them up for adoption. Growing up in the system can have long term effects on children and young adults, some of those effects are PTSD, depression, anxiety, and many other disorders. The question I ask is; what do those long term effects look like and what is being done to improve the system?
Every year, children ages 1 month to 18 years, from all types of different backgrounds are tossed into the bin of misfit children, from which the government decided were unfit parents, and every year a good amount of them are placed into the homes complete strangers. These children come from broken homes, parents with drug addictions, alcoholics, abusers, and ones who just couldn’t provide for their child. In Jeanne Whalen’s article, “The Children of the Opioid Crisis”, she describes the inundate and increasing amount of children being referred to foster facilities. One of the leading causes of government lead child …show more content…
In Garrett Therolf article “The Child Mill”, he describes the deficient reality of where a child goes once a home is found. There are two roads, privately run, or state-supervised facilities. THey both have their pros and cons with the ability for children and inadequate families to fall through the cracks but in The Wolf's article recent statistics have shown that, “Those living in homes run by private agencies were about a third more likely to be the victims of serious physical, emotional or sexual abuse than children in state-supervised foster family homes, according to a Times analysis of more than 1 million hotline investigations over a recent three-year period.” (Garret). State foster homes are scarce and running out of families to foster their children under the government jurisdiction, and some people have even started looking to privately owned agencies to take care of their children, but the downside to this is that the statistics are much higher in forms of abuse than a state run facility. Privately owned agencies do not have the same standards to uphold as a government agency would have in ways of keeping tabs on families and how he child is reacting in its newly adjusting environment. On the Contrary in Mikel Chavers article he merely focuses on the stories that work out or “Forever