Foster care adoption

Why do children end up in the system? Adoption can be a sad and also exciting time for the child, parents, and adopting parents. If a child is adopted at a young age it is more likely that they can grow to to forget their real parents and no nothing of the adoption. While if a child is adopted after the age of 8 they are more likely to remember their biological parents which can lead to the child being sad and depressed. When a child is taken from their homes it is not always a choice, nor is…

Foster families should develop a healthy attachment with these children, the attachment relationship varies depending on the approach and behavior of the foster parents, it can either be secure or insecure. When provided enough care, understanding, health care and protection the children develop a secure attachment with their foster families. But in the absence of protection, care and understanding the children grow more insecure towards the…

all children who are in the foster care system are adopted. As a child becomes older, his or her chances also become smaller. Siblings are often separated into different homes, sometimes depending on age or gender. However, when I was nine, I was adopted with my younger brother. Being adopted at that age allowed me to understand the happiness of holding a permanent place in the hearts of people I love, to recognize the blessing I was given with having the same foster and adoptive parents, and to…

factor for me in the adoption process, I have for some reason always thought I would adopt a child of a different race. As I have grown and become more educated in terms of society and how race & culture plays a great role in a persons’ life, I realize that it is important to consider how a child’s life may be affect in both negative and positive ways if brought up…

world flip, ever think of adoption? Many people including my parents, either become foster parents and adopting a lucky child to bring into their home. Becoming a foster parent means that “You are having a temporary placement in which you the adult, provides for the care of children whose birth parent(s) is unable to care for them.” According to AdoptUsKids. Having a child placed under the roof of your home can last to anywhere from overnight to several nights. Becoming a foster parent can…

The concept of foster care and adoption can be traced as far back as the Old Testament. The book of Esther tells the story of a young girl who was taken in, after her parents died, by her cousin and became queen of Persia. Although Esther’s story has a happy ending, many of the children in today’s foster care system do not. The teenagers who are aging out of foster care has the steepest hill to climb. The system is set up to be a temporary solution until they can locate a permanent home for the…

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…

without permanent families in the foster care system. About 101,666 of these children are eligible for adoption, according to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, nearly thirty-two percent of these children will have to wait over three years in foster care before getting adopted. However, the statistics for this many children clearly show the ineligibility of adoption or lack of criteria meeting families and also has a real impact on the adoptees life. Adoption affects adolescents in a…

Foster care systems need to be better taken care of by the government so the children in the systems receive what they need before and after their release of the system. An example of this is that foster care systems don’t have enough money to care for the kids when they leave the foster system. The article, “6 problems with the foster care system - and what you can do to help,” states that they can’t afford for the needs for the young adults when they leave the foster system, it says, “Foster…

Foster Care System Failures Foster care is defined as the supervision or care of neglected children in an institution or alternate home. There are “Around 500,000 children in the U.S currently reside in some form of foster care” (Statistics and Research). These homes, or placements as they are called, could be with a relative, in a group home or a foster parents’ home. As a community, nation and globe, people are often unaware of the incredibly vulgar and inhumane events that take place in the…