Administration for Children and Families

criminals. She was single mother of 2 American citizen daughters and she never committed a crime her whole life. She came to America legally and overstayed her visa and because of not having a license she was going to be deported and separated from her children. Her sympathetic story was picked up by immigration activists and politicians, and it inspired a state bill known as Susanna’s law, which had the purpose of denying funding for Secure Communities. Sheriff Curan’s change of heart was…

In the United States today over 250,000 children are placed into the foster care system yearly, more than 20,000 of which age out before getting adopted. There are many scenarios that may remove these children from their families, and enter them into the system. Situations of neglect, abuse, parental deaths or incarceration that do not warrant opportunities for children to be taken in by other relatives, to name a few. (AdoptUSKids) Children without proper housing and guardianship has been…

protected bank accounts, provided relief programs, and subsidized consumer goods. The working class grew. It grew even more with the passing of the Works Progress Administration act which employed an extra 8 million people. Sometime after 1936, the Wagner Act was put into place to set working hours and minimum wage, and prohibited children under 18 from working. It also acted as a Magna Carta for unions, since union membership grew exponentially. The working class now has a voice and is thus…

As a front line worker with people with developmental disabilities, I have noticed that in all the agencies I have worked, they are usually more careful when handling their clients’ medication administration issues. These agencies strive hard to ensure that clients are not overmedicated, missing medication doses and given wrong medication. The occurrence of any of these can lead to client’s death, deterioration in their health condition, as well as spelling harsh consequences for the staff who…

born March 26, 1953 in Taipei, Taiwan. She is the oldest of 6 girls and held a lot of the responsibility in her family. She was daughter to Ruth Mulan Chu Chao and Dr. James S.C. Chao. Her mother was her historian and her father a merchant, mariner, business leader, and philanthropist. James Chao is a founder of a shipping, trading, and finance enterprise called Foremost Group. Her family moved to Taipei after the Chinese Civil War when Chinese Communists took over. When she was 8 her mother 2…

Children are starving in Africa. Children are starving in Asia. Children are starving in the middle east. Children are starving in South America. These all sound very familiar, but what you are probably not used to hearing is: Children are starving in the United States of America. Many of you may have always believed that there are no way children are food insecure in America, but in all reality, there may be a child who lives down the street from you that is going hungry every night. As humans,…

Children of professional families hear about eleven million words per year, while children of working-class parents hear six million and children whose families are on welfare hear three million words per year. By the time children attend kindergarten, children of professional families have heard, on average, thirty-two million more words than children from families receiving welfare benefits (Boyce, 2). Additionally, in kindergarten…

policy regarding immigration in the United States under President Obama’s administration is to help secure the border, prioritize felons for deportation- not families, and hold undocumented immigrants accountable by requiring them to pass a criminal background check and pay their fair share of taxes, and modernize the legal immigration system (https://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/immigration). According to the White House administration, the president’s policies have created success by slowing the…

abusive parents be able to get their children back? I do not believe they should. According to Dictionary.com, the definition of child abuse is “mistreatment of a child by a parent or guardian, including neglect, beating, and sexual molestation.” A range of consequences could arise from previously abusive parents having custody, from the parents pretending to change and abusing the children again to the children never being able to be adopted into a more normal family; overall, it would be…

society, even beyond the classroom. Urban education policies must recognize that cultural responsiveness is a central element to student learning. Cultural responsiveness is being able to communicate and shape the thinking of process of teachers and administration alike. School districts and practitioners make the mistake of making decisions without attentive consideration of various cultural realities for the students they serve. An example of this would be schools that serve a high…