Foster care adoption

Foster care as defined by the Meriam Webster dictionary is a situation in which for a period of time a child lives with and is cared for by people who are not the child 's parents however, my personal definition based on my experience is entirely different. My journey through the foster care system started with a little building ran by the Child Protective Services. Within the ominous building my life was changed multiple times within a few short years. My journey as a foster child started as a…

week was a pretty interesting week. We talked a great deal about the importance of stability and permanency in a foster child’s life. We watched the movie White Oleander. White Oleander is about a young girl thrown into the foster care system after her mother was convicted of first and sentenced to 35 years in prison. This movie brought a great deal of emotions about the foster care systems and about how important it is to have a good social worker. I felt anger towards the social worker in…

Growing up as an orphan was difficult and finding homes was too. Children who found homes were often wanted for their work or were often abused by their adoptive parents. Without the the Orphan trains, the many children would not have parents or a home. The Orphan Trains ran from 1854 to 1929 which was initiated by a social welfare reformer Charles Loring Brace. When the movement began, it was estimated that approximately 30,000 abandoned children were living on the streets of New York. Most…

cruel act is known as the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler is the one who orchestrated this all, but a man named Eddy Berhendt created the Kindertransport. The Kindertransport took approximately 10,000 children and shipped them off to Great Britain to live in foster homes. The Kindertransport was known for why it was created/implemented, living conditions, and the impact it had on the children. The Kindertransport was created by a man that wanted to put his skills to the test and how he wanted to do it.…

self-medicated with alcohol and spent more time away from home with her boyfriends than she did looking after her own children. Cherie, Camille, Regina, Norman, and Rosie raised themselves and had to resort to all sorts of extreme measures to take care of themselves. Their mother Cookie, a woman who had five children by five different fathers, was a “force of nature”, who upturned their life several times. A woman who was in and out of their lives as they bounced from house to house to being…

taught, not just tossed aside and sent away as was done to Peter. Though she never learned how to properly speak, she was capable of sign language and learned to show clear emotions, while Peter never learned to speak. Genie was taken back under the care of her mother, and Peter was left to wander on his own. I believe that today we have a better understanding of what feral children need then we did in Peter’s case in the…

Ashley Gonzalez, Ms. Bayron’s daughter, stated that the Li children were more like family than foster children. Ashley that she interacted with the children all the time, especially Lisa, because she wanted her to become more verbal. Ashley conveyed that she assisted Amy and Wendy with the completion of their homework. Ashley explained that she had frequent conversation with the children regarding their parents. Ashley voiced that she encouraged all the children to have a good relationship with…

is in the back of the social workers car trying to analyze why she is there and what happened to put her there. Carley is dreading the idea of meeting the new family she has to stay with. Just from the opening any child who has either been in foster care, or had to just move around could relate to the story. The rush of thought Carley talks about are will people like me? Will I fit in? All things that children/young adults feel. Especially if they are starting a new school or a new…

The heartbreaking story of Mayella Ewell, and how her father abused her. Mayella lives in a small segregated town, known as, Maycomb. Mayella’s mother left her and her siblings in their early lives, therefore Mayella had to raise them. In all honesty, without her father's help. Due to the fact, that he was an alcoholic. Because of this, he abused her constantly. In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird Mayella Ewell may seem to portray some power but overall she is not a powerful person. As…

there are some situations that push them into this ‘child in care’ system. This system is very supportive of children, young people and it's useful for most of the time, some children do not have the same mentality to take this situation easy which impacts on their behaviour or their attitude towards life. Children are precious unfortunately, not all women can have them so the ones that do have children should treat them with utmost care and love.Children get very attached to their parents…