Foster care adoption

adapted from Liz Murray’s autobiography, Breaking Night. Born in an extremely dysfunctional family with a schizophrenic mother and drug-addicted father, our protagonist Liz is required to remove from the home and put into the care system, as the unconscientious father cannot take care of her. (1)She became homeless just after she turned 16, when her mother died of AIDS, and her father moved to a homeless shelter. She gets a slap in the face by her mother's death: Liz's life turned around when…

Stories similar to the boy taken away from his family and shuffled around in foster care for a false accusation of child abuse and neglect, and the story of a child kept in a cage for a week, show that these states need serious reform. Looking at all three states, there appears to be more similarities than differences with respect to how they handle child abuse and neglect. First and foremost, each state has a government run department that deals with abuse and neglect. All of the departments…

Bud's best buddy. Like the gunfighters of the 1800's, Jerry Clark is traveling west. Like the knights of old, Jerry Clark is going to slay an iron Dragon!!! The imagination of a six-year-old can be very vivid. Fantasy is not a luxury Jerry "bugs" Clark can afford. He has been an orphan all of his brief life. And to make it much much worse he's an orphan during the great depression. He has been hopping trains all over the country just trying to find a happy home. Finally he found someone he…

studies. This is exemplified in the case study of young people transitioning from out of home care. There are a number of issues that young people face when transitioning from out of home care. This has resulted in a number of policies formed to both resolve and improve these issues. The use of social theories can be seen through the ways in which the theory of ideology has been used in the out of home care policy. This will be clear through a quick summary of the case study, an analysis of…

Children Should Stay With Their Homeless Families Do you know how many U.S. children are in foster care, and not with their parents? Nearly 428,000 children in the U.S get put in foster care every day (Children's Rights). One online reporter for NBC news stated, “Tthere are roughly 2.5 million children who were homeless at some point last year” (White, Martha). Many homeless children have been taken away from their parents simply because they are homeless, not because they are neglected or…

In 2013, 1.6 million children were homeless or had experienced homelessness in the United States. Children are the future. When children are homeless, they do not get to experience a good education. If children lack knowledge, then what does that mean about the future of America? We need to give these children and all children the education, housing, and safety they deserve. Homeless youth need help with problems at home, abuse, and education. Statistics show that 46% of runaway youth were…

The first policy written at the federal level to address child abuse is the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, enacted in 1974. Alternatively known as “CAPTA,” the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1974 aimed to “provide funding for the prevention, identification, and treatment of child abuse and neglect” (National Low Income Housing Coalition, 2016). By doing so, CAPTA would provide the framework for children’s improved living conditions. Evidently, CAPTA has proven to be more…

Parens Patriae Parens Patriae is the power of the state to act on behalf of a child and provide care and protection equivalent to that of a parent. It was first used by English kings to establish the right to intervene in the lives of the children of their vassals. The courts used this to safeguard the welfare of orphans and protect their property and inheritance rights; arguing that the children were under the custody of the king (Chancery Court pg.13). Parens Patriae has underwent several…

Imagine your childhood. If it is anything like millions of Americans you had a decent life. There was always a roof over your head and you had at least one parent that cared for you. Your biggest worry in life might have been leaving your parents on the first day of school as you were boarding the bus, or if the boogie monster was actually a real creature that lurked in the night. Now imagine yourself in Syria, South Sudan, Nigeria, or Mali where children are “recruited” to be slave soldiers or…

There is an open case on the family. The biological mother had a period of time where she had no visitation with the children. Within the last 2-3 weeks, the boys started seeing the mother again. There is a history of violence in the home with mom and her boyfriend. That is the reason the case was opened. Since the children started seeing the mother, there has been a traumatic change in both children's behaviors. Per reporter, the behaviors coincides with when visitation was reinstated with the…