Foster care adoption

the American taxpayers spent twenty-two billion dollars on foster care programs (ABC News 1). It’s a slightly sizeable amount, but it is put to shame when compared to the 600 billion dollars spent on the US Military last year (National Priorities Project 1) . Regardless, I have a solution for this seemingly excessively unnecessary spending. Even Wade Horn, the highest ranking federal official in charge of foster care says the foster care system is a giant mess and should just be blown up (ABC…

Whiteacre, 2016; Goshin & Byrne, 2009; Yager, 2015). More specifically, it is vital for both mother and child to remain together because in order to develop a secure attachment the child must ensure continuous and stable interactions with his/her primary care takers (Elmalak, 2015; Colin & Low, 1991), and a secure attachment is what ultimately allow the child adequately develop his adult life in a health way (Elmalak, 2015; Goshin & Byrne, 2009; JBara, 2013). Furthermore,…

WOW what can I say. At six years old. I was still in foster care. I was mad at the world and I wanted to go home to my mom and dad. I wanted to live a normal life like every other kid I knew. I don 't remember the first day of school. I do remember that I went to an elementary school called Biddle in Detroit Michigan. I didn 't have a problem finding friends at all. I was a go-getter. I remember having a friend name Gordon. My early childhood life I was living with Mrs. Rodgers then I got moved…

An Explanation of the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 This paper was written to address The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, which was established “to reduce the number of children in foster care for extended lengths of time through written permanency plans that emphasized family preservation, reunification, or adoption.” (Chapin, 2017, p. 450). The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act provides government support for adoptions to reduce monetary…

faulty school performance. There are also differences in cognitive abilities between boys and girls. Cognitive and Behavioral Development Among Adopted Children Children who are adopted, institutionalized, or placed in foster care have shown to differ from children of same age and characteristics in terms of cognitive ability and behavior.…

satisfaction when I was an intern at Eggleston Family Services, a foster care and adoption agency. One of the foster parents assigned to my caseload was going to submit a two-week notice to transfer a foster child to a different placement. I was in disbelief that a foster parent would easily abandon a minor just because the child did not want to complete their chores. The foster parent only saw the child’s flaws and setbacks. I sat down with the foster parent and explained that the minor has…

fewer children stuck in foster care if authorities reduced red tape and standardized procedures encouraging more adoptions across state lines. Many children spend years waiting in foster care even while there are families willing to adopt them. The reason they wait is because of all the artificial barriers the red tape generates. Proposals generated by these interstate adoption advocates included requests to: • Standardize home study courses. • Adjust the federal adoption incentive policy…

children are adopted each year and 107,000 are awaiting adoption (Fogle). Adoption is defined as a social and legal process that creates a new family, giving adopted children the same rights and benefits as those born into the family. There are several ways that children get adopted. Children can get adopted publicly or privately and through these two options they can be adopted internationally, across state borders which is usually through foster care. The type of process each child goes…

Adoption is a complicated thing, it can take months, weeks, years to be able to start your family. Many people adopt because they can not have a child of their own, some people adopt because they feel like those children that don’t have a family should have a family before another human being is brought into the world, then there is also the gay community but that goes with the can’t have a baby of their own category and some of the other. I wanna throw some facts down about adoption, and how…

community can take to minimize the occurrence of child neglect. As Barth states in her Commentary on the Report of the APSAC Task Force on Evidence-Based Service Planning Guidelines for Child Welfare, the responsibility of ensuring that the child has love care and attention shared in the community. This realization brings about the role of the child welfare service as an oversite body of ensuring that the children are safe. This paper will, therefore, focus on the contributions and the steps…