Adoption Essay

a. Experimental group/pg. 132: the group of subjects in an experiment who are exposed to the independent variable. When watching China’s Lost Girls, it can be said that the whole documentary was focused around the study of American parents traveling across national borders in order to adopt Chinese baby girls. The causation for this ‘experiment’ could be traced to many different reasons; sterile parents who are unable to rear a biological child themselves, lonely married couples who have raised…

Inspirational Essay: Michael J. Oher Introduction to Michael Oher Running all his life, no where to go, going place to place, has no one to turn to. Michael Oher was born May 28, 1986. He was the son of a crack cocaine addicted mother, with 12 other children, whom some he has never met. His father was out of the picture, and died when Michael was in highschool. Michael has gone from 11 different schools in his first 9 years of being a student. He goes from foster care, to foster care, sometimes…

My opinion on foster care is that yes, it does help most families, but I still do feel as if there are many issues in the system for placement and caregiving that needs to be fixed. The foster system has helped many kids reunite with their families, but at the same time, it has mentally and physically traumatized many. I feel it has traumatized many because many children have been emotionally, physically and sexually abused more than once. As I had stated earlier in the problems, over 28% of the…

The Beggar in The Living Room is a short story which deals with a common but rarely talked about topic in American culture, the desensitization of the public to violence and other horrific images. Throughout the story there are 4 images involving something horrific, that make the daily news. The first being the car crash the narrator is involved in, followed by the starving African child, the Korean student being beaten, and lastly the people being gassed. The recurring theme in the holograms is…

Thank you so much! Many of us have heard of foster homes, but most of us don't know that you can get put in a worst home. A foster home is full of many kids that are in need for a new and better home. Sometimes the foster home has no other choice but to close down, and then all the kids that were in it have to be put in random homes. On the other hand, many negative things could happen at his current home also, but through what does happen at his old home, he will have his family to support him…

A newborn boy has just been declared a safe haven baby! His mother requested all rights be given to the Department of Human Services. If moms do not wish to keep their child, they should be adopted by safe havens. Even though they are still abandoning their children, every state should adopt a safe haven law because many of them would be saved and could go to better homes. A survey from the HHS Administration for Children and Families found that 65 babies were abandoned in public places in…

Intervention Targets for Youths with Disabilities in Foster Care “Youth with disabilities are more likely to be placed in foster care as a result of maltreatment than youth who do not have disabilities.” These children need advocates such as teachers, social workers, foster parents, administration, and many more help pave the way for their future. Some of these children have been lost in the system and have been diagnosed with the wrong disabilities because a foster parent didn’t know better.…

Social change occurs when the values, norms, and/or beliefs change over a period of time. These changes will cause either a positive or negative consequence. I believe that social change is a fundamental part of being in the human service field. As a human service professional, our goal is to make a positive impact and ignite social change. Walden has worked hard to provide a program that integrates social change, through A Vision of Social Change. Through this program social change is not…

The situation that requires considerable influencing is a continuing matter within our family. My aunt adopted a child Brian, when he was only four years old. She already had five children of her own, but they loved him from the moment they met. She has done a fine job of raising her own children. The children range from doctors and pilots to engineers, she has done quite well as a mother. Although she is hard on her children, she has a good track record of success. She and her husband are two…

Conducting outreach through home/placement visits and community agencies to foster engagement, rather than relying solely on referrals from schools or professionals is important when engaging with this population. As foster care youths are often in unstable housing, being flexible and going to where the youth is at rather than waiting for referrals is a more proactive approach. Over the last two decades, the ethnicity of foster children has shifted dramatically. By 2000, minority populations…