Child protection

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…

Problems in the Foster Care System “Foster care is a state-managed child welfare system that provides out-of-home placement for children who have been removed from their original home due to neglect, abuse, delinquency or abandonment.” What this quote from DAMAR Foster Care Services fails to mention is that though in 2014, 415,129 children were removed from dangerous situations and placed into a more acceptable situation, these children and young adults are still not safe. Foster care is…

organization called Child Protected Services (CPS). The CPS job is to find parents that are neglecting their children and take them away from these unstable parents and put them in foster care, but people fail to realize the negative affects putting children…

Arkansas Child Welfare System Timeline In the later 1970s, reports of suspected child abuse and neglect soared in Arkansas. Social workers and child welfare administrators were tasked with investigating all the reports, monitoring and assisting the families with substantiated abuse or neglect, and safely sheltering the more endangered children in foster care homes. The state struggled with keeping up with the expanding range of federal pressure, which was more focused on the preservation of…

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…

aspects. The foster care system in the United States strives to provide care and protect both children and adolescents from their biological family primarily for reasons of neglect, abuse, and safety concerns. In an article from the Child Welfare Information Gateway (2011), child welfare is defined as a group of public and private services that are focused on ensuring all children from birth to 21…

Ministry staff, contractors and panel members toured the province in what was described as the largest public consultation exercise to date on child welfare issues, and comprehensive new child welfare legislation was introduced in the Legislature in 1994, and came into force in 1996” (p. 8). The child welfare legislation which came into effect is the Child, Family and Community Service Act (CFCSA). Policy and Ideology In order to understand policy, it is helpful to be aware of the political…

Child welfare was created with the intention of protecting and strengthening families. It began to take root in the 1870s after cases of child abuse such as the case of Mary Ellen triggered the attention of the public by making them realize there were little to no laws in place to protect children from abuse (McGowen). As child welfare developed the Children’s Aid Society was founded in New York by Charles Loring Brace with the intention of getting children off of the street and into homes. The…

Social Policy Analysis Paper Social Problem According to the United States Department of Education, children in foster care represent one of the most vulnerable populations amongst our youth (U.S. Department of Education, 2016). The extenuating circumstances that this group experiences, impacts their physical, emotional, and mental-health development which can influence the overall welfare and resiliency of children in foster care. These implications generate barriers that impede one’s potential…

this, some governmental officials have consciously abdicated their obligation to provide remedial protection for foster children even where they have specific knowledge of threatened or actual harm to such children.” (Arcaro 664) Many officials there is harm where they are sending their kids yet they let them be adopted. The officials rarely get into the shoes of the kids and how life would be. When a child has special needs the officials never take in mind if the family will be able to support…