Foster Care Independence Act

Adopting children through the foster care system has become a viable options for childless families; foster care adoption not only gives children in our country homes, but also the adoptive parent(s) receive numerous benefits from the state and federal government that is not offered for private domestic and international adoption. Private domestic and international adoptions are the most common types of adoption processes being used in the United States. Private domestic adoption are…

The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act (AACWA) of 1980 (Pub. L. 96-272) was enacted after it was discovered that too many children were being placed in foster care too quickly and for too long during the 1970’s. The AACWA was to promote keeping the families together and placing the children in permanent placement rather than placing them in foster care. Title IV-E was created as part of the AACWA and provides federal funding for educating and training the child welfare workforce in…

How Nurture can affects our Personality: The Story of a Feral Child In the documentary video "The Secret of the Wild Child: Story of Genie”, the audience is introduced to Genie’s story, a girl who was held in captivity and isolated by her own father since the moment she was a baby until she was 13 years old. She became primitive, and showed many non-human features. The purpose of this assignment is to debate whether Genie’s behavior was the responsibility of nature or nurture, meaning that…

Nora Rowden Ms. Marton Language Arts 7-2 16 November 2017 The Great Bottle Drive of 2016 Close your eyes and think for a second, put yourself in someone else's shoes. There are thousands of kids in the United States that are in foster care. These kids have been physically and mentally hurt and abused. These kids have been taken from their homes and some of them separated from their brothers and sisters. The brothers and the sisters being taken from home to home and not being wanted. All…

Families Act (ASFA), adoptions from foster care have increased since 1998 (Festinger & Maza, 2009; Houston & Kramer, 2008). Kinship and non-kindship assist in providing successful permanency outcomes for children in the child welfare system, however it is important to note that because children were adopted from foster care, the family is likely to endure stress and discord due to the child’s history of abuse and neglect (Houston & Kramer, 2008). Over the course of a child’s journey in foster…

Imagine your parents dropping you off at an unknown aunts house and then keeping a huge family secret from you. In the book “Double Identity” by Margaret Peterson Bethany begins coming of age as soon as her parents drop her off and leave. Coming of age is the term used to show the transition of teen to young adult. A person can mature faster when something extreme happens in your family. Bethany comes of age by taking responsibility, handling her emotions, and knowing who she is as a person.…

Children have little to no control of their environment, especially in the decision making on behalf of them. Everyone may be agree with me based on this case study. Placed those three children (Lucy 6, Robert 3 and the 20 months old Joey) in foster care was not their decision per se neither their parent agreement. That will be my focus on this paper and the systems perspective theory will help me to analyze this case study perfectly. The system perspective are made up of reciprocal…

On August 4, 1913 I was born in Detroit, Michigan. My parents were divorced so I spent most of my time in a foster care system with my foster parents. I mostly got in physical and verbal fights with them from day to day. And during those days I suffered deep depression. When I was a little boy I had very bad vision which made me socially isolated. That’s how I started to love literature such as poetry. After writing my first book in 1940, I wanted to go back to school to get a higher…

for foster youth. Becoming a foster parent is very demanding. Foster parents are expected to provide a safe and nurturing home to children that have experienced different types of abuse. Foster parents have to respond to the minor’s emotional and behavior needs. Some of these children are defiant because they have been separated from their parents. Many of them do not understand why they are being taken away. Children in the foster care system have often been placed in many different foster…

the dishes, putting them in the dishwasher, making sure it was full and started, and washing the rest by hand. We listened to hear if something was going on. There was slight screaming in the living room. It sounded like Duke and Michelle were taking care of it. I was wiping down the counters and Shaun was taking out the trash, he walked out the back door and both Michelle and Duke were standing in the doorway of the…