Parenting a Hurt Child
Nationally, there are approximately 397,000 children who enter the foster care system by 2012. After entering the system some of the children’s parents were being terminated from their parent’s rights, these could be due to to their addiction, poverty, abusiveness or parent’s mental illness, which leave these kids parentless and scared. A Large number of children who came into the system have been a victims of violence at home. Most of these children later result from show sign of mental disability or behaviors disorders depending the type of home they were in. After taking the child out of their unsafe home, the case workers may place the children in their relatives or non-relatives home. About one-quarter of these children …show more content…
Many people misunderstood that children who came into the system are violence or misbehave. According to their background, these kids had been physical, sexually, and mentally abused by their parents or guidance which leave to the child failing. Some of them finding it hard to trust other people or fit in. It is important for foster parents to pay close attention to their foster children’s behavior. For example, children who have been physically abused will show the behavior of whining, shy, weak eyes contact, startled or fear when touched, aggressive towards others, disrespect, misconduct, unresponsive to threats or punishments, suicidal ideation, or tendency to lie. Children who experience sexual abuse show similar behaviors. Also, they will also appear to have anger outburst, defiance, cutting behavior, stealing, flirtatious behavior with strangers or sexual acts, disruptive, and have nightmares. The behavior seen in foster children due to neglect are hoarding food, stealing food, bed wetting irregular bowel movement, and spacing out. These are only a few symptoms developed from their past …show more content…
In Forster Parenting Step-by-step, Gopal explained, “studies have found that anywhere between 50% to 80% of children in foster care have mental health diagnoses and as young adults, and young children are diagnosed over .5 times higher than the general population” (Gopal, K. 2013, p.90). Many children went to horrifying experiences which interfered with their growth and development. Foster children were under a lot of stressful environment which causes them to feel consistently anxious or depress. Foster parents should provide emotional support and a
Nationally, there are approximately 397,000 children who enter the foster care system by 2012. After entering the system some of the children’s parents were being terminated from their parent’s rights, these could be due to to their addiction, poverty, abusiveness or parent’s mental illness, which leave these kids parentless and scared. A Large number of children who came into the system have been a victims of violence at home. Most of these children later result from show sign of mental disability or behaviors disorders depending the type of home they were in. After taking the child out of their unsafe home, the case workers may place the children in their relatives or non-relatives home. About one-quarter of these children …show more content…
Many people misunderstood that children who came into the system are violence or misbehave. According to their background, these kids had been physical, sexually, and mentally abused by their parents or guidance which leave to the child failing. Some of them finding it hard to trust other people or fit in. It is important for foster parents to pay close attention to their foster children’s behavior. For example, children who have been physically abused will show the behavior of whining, shy, weak eyes contact, startled or fear when touched, aggressive towards others, disrespect, misconduct, unresponsive to threats or punishments, suicidal ideation, or tendency to lie. Children who experience sexual abuse show similar behaviors. Also, they will also appear to have anger outburst, defiance, cutting behavior, stealing, flirtatious behavior with strangers or sexual acts, disruptive, and have nightmares. The behavior seen in foster children due to neglect are hoarding food, stealing food, bed wetting irregular bowel movement, and spacing out. These are only a few symptoms developed from their past …show more content…
In Forster Parenting Step-by-step, Gopal explained, “studies have found that anywhere between 50% to 80% of children in foster care have mental health diagnoses and as young adults, and young children are diagnosed over .5 times higher than the general population” (Gopal, K. 2013, p.90). Many children went to horrifying experiences which interfered with their growth and development. Foster children were under a lot of stressful environment which causes them to feel consistently anxious or depress. Foster parents should provide emotional support and a