Foster care adoption

her grasp. It’s been almost ten years since their death, being that she was eight when they died. Since then, she’d been raised in several foster homes and never granted an authentic place she could call home. For people wanted younger kids to adopt and no one wanted to take in a disturbed child. Right now, she lay on her bed in the attic of her sixth foster home. She shivered and noticed her window was open when a gust of cold wind blew into her room. Pulling the blankets off the top of her…

had a child, one of the things that you should think about now is how you will provide for your child should anything ever happen to you and/or your partner. You are now responsible for your child's care for their entire childhood. One of the best ways to ensure that your child will always be taken care of is by investing in life insurance for both you and your spouse. There Are Two Primary Types Of Life Insurance One of the most important things that you need to know is that there is more…

selected to discuss are youth in foster care. The social problem that I chose to highlight is how youth in out of home placements (i.e. therapeutic foster care) are being prescribed psychotropic medications at an increased rate, when compared to non-foster youth. Therapeutic foster care placements in some states is referred to as, treatment foster homes. Youths that have severe emotional, behavioral or mental health needs are typically placed in therapeutic or treatment foster homes. Typically,…

When Yvette Henley went missing, her desperate grandparents turned to an unlikely person for help, a stranger they had never met that lived in a different country. Harry Brown became he man Gary and Kim Forester pinned their hopes on when their son, Virgil Henley, disappeared with their granddaughter after they gained custody of the girl who was in danger, according to the Mirror. After the courts ruled the child had suffered “emotional damage,” the Forester's were ready to bring Yvette into…

status does not stop anyone from adopting a child anywhere. Adoption agencies and attorneys often prefer married couples as an idea choice for children. Most adoption agencies prefer a married couple over a single individual, but an already given right shouldn’t be taken away from them just because of their relationship status. If a single person is considered incapable of taking care of a child without a spouse, but a single parent take care of a child, and possibly more than one child due to…

the Indian Child Welfare Act to reduce the amount of Native American children being removed from their homes. Congress also passed the Multiethnic Placement Act to ensure child welfare agencies denying adoptive placements on the basics of race. The Adoption Assistance and Child…

all her life. Her mom was exhausted, without a home, and in no way prepared to take on the responsibility of a baby. As soon as the baby was old enough to live without her mother, Foster Care stepped in, and settled her into a temporary home. She remained there for two prolonged years where she was starved by her foster parents, who were under the impression she was overweight. During these two years, her mother was working to make a better life for herself, in the hopes to gain back custody of…

The National Center for Biotechnology Information(NCBI) did a study of 155 female children between the ages of four to seventeen who were in foster care. They found sexual abuse was reported by eighty-one percent of them, and sixty-eight percent were sexually abused by more than one individual (Girls). It is a social workers job to find out about mistreatment like this, and with such high percentages of sexual abuse, there is an obvious problem in the system. Whether the social worker has too…

A Season I took a step outside and could smell the crisp air of autumn. It was a windy day and my heart was pounding. I knew something was about to happen, but unsure of the outcome that lay ahead. I was with the person that makes my world keep going around, my mom. Literally without my mom and her family I would not be where I am today. We had just gone to church and were getting ready to leave the house for a little bit. When out of nowhere in the boondocks of Bremen, came a knock at the…

FOSTER CARE AND THE EFFECTS ON CHILDREN Foster care is care provided for children whose families are temporarily unable to care for them (Merck Manuals, 2007). This definition to me seems to simple cause of the fact that a lot of children that go into the foster care system are there longer than they should be. Knowing a few people who have been in the foster care system, they seem to make it really difficult for the biological parents to get the children back even after fulfilling the…