Fosterage

Foster kids don't have it easy. Sure they don't have nagging parents, but that doesn't make their lives any easier. They are bouncing from home to home enable to have parents. These foster kids need to be persistent when moving. Example of this persistence can be found in "Pictures of Hollis Woods" by Patricia Reilly Gidd and "The Orphan Train" by Kim Hill. In "Pictures of Hollis Woods", the mustard lady is continuously moving Hollis from home to home due to her weak decisions in families. While…

This week in the field I had the opportunity to observe a CFTM. The CFTM consisted of a Southern Christian Service (SCS) Family Specialist, the potential foster parents and the MYPAC team (facilitator, therapist and supervisor). This meeting was geared towards revealing the diagnosis of the foster child to the potential foster parents. I have very conflicting feelings about this CFTM, because I feel like we blindsided the foster parents. SCS has been working with this family for over 4 months…

“In 2012, 397,000 children were in foster care, a 30 percent decline from the 1999 peak of 567,000, and a number lower than any seen in the past 25 years. In 2014, the number had increased to 415,000” (“Foster Care” 1). Children in foster care are taken out of their homes because something is wrong with how they were living. These children need a good parent-child relationship. There are many studies on the correlation between parent-child relationships, and the outcome of a child. Lord of the…

Yuli Juarez Section: 4:30-5:40pm TA’s name: Lenny Throughout the years more and more youth are being separated from their families and are being sent to foster homes. As more children and youth enter foster homes they are also staying longer periods of time, meaning that something is not working as efficiently as it should be in the foster care system. These children and youth are being sent to foster homes because the types of relationships that they encounter at home with…

IV. Personal Conclusion: I personally believe that orphanages can offer a safe haven for some children if they are managed responsibility and are staffed well. While younger children and babies would thrive better in a good foster home with one on one attention from parents, older children who have spent a life of being moved from foster home to foster home should have an option to be able to stay in one stable place. A. At the beginning of this project, I thought that the foster care system was…

The neglect system or foster care? There is a need for strict enforcement, and improvement for the foster care system. It is proven fact that those who grew up in the foster care system have less of a chance living a successful life, due to neglect in the system. Children are constantly being moved from house to house; living with people who pretend to care for the kids, but really care more for the money and benefits given to them by the government. Time after time foster children are given the…

What if one single event could change your life forever? What would you do? Imagine being taken from your parents at a young age. Imagine being separated from your siblings when they are all you have left. Also having to live in an environment that makes you feel uncomfortable. I guess you can say that having to pay for your parents mistakes can be unfair. Being taken into foster care was the event that changed my life forever. My beliefs before actually experiencing this were, how could you…

All my life I have gone around doing things how I view them correct. The thing is I have never really taken the time to actually think about what I am actually doing, why I am doing what I 'm doing, and even how I am doing what I am doing. Throughout our lives, we are constantly asked what we like and or what we are good at, we usually answer with something like “I don 't know” or with something we enjoy such as art or music. There is so much more to us than just one single word and is why…

The Broken System Suffering and being neglected on a daily basis is not something someone has to ever encounter. The foster care system is failing because of all of the flaws that exist which results in the harm of bringing down innocent children. The state of Florida has been the first state to ever make all foster care privatized. While the foster care system in Florida is able to get many children adopted, many several of them also suffer from permanent health issues because of the broken…

The Struggles of Antwone Fisher “Antwone Fisher” (2002) is a biographical drama that begins as Antwone, an adult enlisted in the United States Navy, attacks his fellow soldiers. Given his grave offense and the danger he could pose to others, he is restricted to the ship for one and a half months. Antwone is also sent to Dr. Jerome Davenport, a Navy psychiatrist. Athwone is furious about this development. His reluctance about his current situation strains the relationship between the two men.…