Fosterage

This 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…

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…

One of the biggest struggles for parents in the United States is raising children. Parents all have certain ways in how they raise their children that other people may not approve of. Some parents are involved in the daily activities and contribute everything they possibly can to make their children successful in life. On the other hand, there are parents that only care about themselves and neglect their children. According to dss.cahwnet.gov in the United States of America there is an…

Lynda Mullaly Murphy author of One for the Murphy’s was born in the late sixties. Lynda was the youngest of five children and found herself enjoying skateboarding and bike riding more than playing dress up or with dolls. She attended Conard High School in West Hartford CT, and continued her studies at University of Connecticut. She aspired to be a teacher and received a degree in education as well as another degree. Once she began teaching she fell in love with writing, she would write stories…

The Fosters If you’re into teen drama i highly recommend watching this T.V. series. It’s about foster moms Stef Foster and Lena Adams. Stef is dedicated police officer who is in a relationship with Lena. The two of them have built a close-knit family with Stef’s biological son Brandon, and adopted twins Mariana and Jesus. They also are working on Fostering Callie and her brother Jude. Although The Fosters is a television series about foster parents is a a very good series that I think everyone…

If somebody would have told me this is how my life would turn out, never in a million years would I have believed them. My entire life had been fucked up, starting with the day I was born. The day I was born, my parents gave me up for adoption. From then on I bounced from foster home to foster home; some were good and some of them not so good. I lived with the same family from the age of ten until I graduated high school. They were one of the, not so good families. They were only being a…

My internship is with the South Carolina Department of Social Services, SCDSS, in the Foster Care Division. Children who are alleged to have been abused or neglected and who are not able to remain safely in their home environments and are unable to placed with a relative for fictive kin relative must enter a foster care setting. SCDSS overall mission it to provide services to children and their families to strengthen the family and that allows for children to remain safely in their home. This…

Discussion and Implications for Practice The purpose of this study is to understand whether state-sanctioned caretaker relationships endure among adolescents who exit foster care through adoption, subsidized guardianship, or long-term relative foster care. From the perspectives of young adults who experience these diverse foster care exits, it explored the complexity involved in the translation of legal permanence to relational permanence, with the aim of producing a theoretically grounded…

Just as children are placed in foster care to better their futures, there should be a placement for those who are transitioning out of the system. A lot of times, foster children are left to fend for themselves once they turn 18. A lot of foster parents only carry out the minimum requirements given from the state. After the age of 18, foster parents are no longer legally reliable for the children they take in. Fallacious notions have been made regarding the entire population of foster care…

Foster care has been a process of successes and failures. Originally Foster Care was established for poor and poverty stricken families who were unable to adequately provide for their children. Prior to welfare involvement, children were simply placed with family members or community members who were able to care for the child. In 1636, Benjamin Eaton became the first official “foster” child. Since that time, numerous laws and policies have been set up in an effort to care for children who have…