Foster care

However, while under the care of the state, some foster children get further harmed. The Adoption and Safe Families Act requires that every state report the rate of foster children who were abused by a foster parent or facility staff. These children are trusting that they are in these care facilities to feel loved, protected and safe but once placed in a foster care you aren’t always definite to be safe from abuse. In fact, statistics stated that over 28% of children in state care are abused…

federal government for their extremely poor efforts to protect and care for children in state custody. Some of the details in the lawsuit included, “Neglects its duty to provide adequate health care for children in state custody. Has a severe shortage of foster homes. Fails to promptly investigate reports of neglect and abuse involving children in foster care.” It’s been…

Many researchers have inadvertently studied the effects of foster care, but there is still little research on the topic of foster care (FC) itself. According to Haskins, Currie, and Berger (2015), nearly 402,000 children were in FC in 2013, which comes to about 5.4 children out of every 1,000. With so many children in the system, there needs to be research on its effects. However, Haskins et al. (2015) also reported that about 680,000 children were reported to be abused or neglected in the…

for them. My case was the latter one, anyway I have been to about 10 foster homes in my life. So, for my first year of foster care I bounced around between houses a lot. Never staying in one home for more than a month or two.…

death situtations caused them to put off their college dreams.Now,it’s my turn an I started to be like them.In the end of my junior year i was placed in Foster care.This cause me to have many doubts about attending college.It was an eye opener. Being in Foster care has opened my eyes and i have realized how many responsibilities i need to take care of.Currently,I am working full time while attending school an adjusting my studying schedule so i don't fall behind in school.Waking up…

Have you ever had to put a child into foster care or leave him with his family? Well, today I have to decide if I put Pony boy in foster care or leave him with his brothers. By the information I have gathered I am leaving Pony boy with his brothers. The reason I am doing this is that he has a stable home, his brothers care for him, and where he can stay with his friends in the environment he has grew up in. Pony boy and his brothers have a stable home. Both of his brothers work and put food on…

of Family and Children’s services from The Department of Foster Care Services, as a referral intake following her first allegation of an unfit parent due to substance on June 11, 2015. The client was not tested because she admitted drug use and she was positive for marijuana at the baby’s birth. Ms. Jabez admitted she was stressed out and this was why she used marijuana. Ms. Jabez stated she was sexually abused, raped, and was in foster care. Also, she reported she has a psychological process…

Foster Homes Being a foster child is hard. They have to move home’s often, and they never understand the feeling of a permanent home. In most cases, foster children are treated as government property rather than humans who do not have a family. They are moved from home to home until they reach the age of 18. At this time they are left by the system, being told that they are adults and should take care of themselves. A permanent home is something rare to the eyes of a foster child. However,…

that they are his “foster parents”. The term foster parents means nothing to him at the time because he is terrified, alone, and worried about his own parents. He may have siblings that, despite the best efforts from social workers, weren’t able to be placed with him. Suddenly, he is taken in, cleaned up, given fresh clothes, and a warm bed to sleep in. Over the next several weeks or months, his foster…

Thousands of children are placed in foster care each year and the majority of them enter the system due to neglect or abuse. All of these children need to deal with the rejection and separation of their parents and sometimes that causes other issues that make the child more vulnerable. A problem sometimes with foster care is that it becomes a revolving door, having the child more back and forth from foster home to their biological parents and back again (Karger & Stoesz, 2014). This causes not…