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Children in foster care wait too long in custody before being placed into a home with a family setting. According to Section: D Foster Care Policy, the policy and program goals were a positive outcome for the client (p.18). The adoption act of 2008, states that the increasing opportunities for adoption and relative guardianship are for the wellbeing of the child. The act is thought to increase the adoption that is taken place but instead it could decrease (p.18). Looking at the strength based…

The Foster Care System The foster care system is a temporary arrangement where adults provide care for children whose parents can no longer care for them (National Adoption Center, 2016). There are two issues with the foster care system. One issue is that children are being placed into foster homes that are unsuitable. This causes many problems amongst the children’s well-being. Some foster children are being placed into homes that house abusive behavior by the adults or children that already…

Annotated Bibliography of The Great Gilly Hopkins The annotations that follow are based off of other books which are realist fiction for middle readers. The main character Gilly is a difficult and full of troubles foster child who just wants to live with her biological mother, Courtney. Throughout the story readers watch her grow from a tough, stubborn, hard protective shell she created and slowly transform into a helpful, caring, and loving girl who respects her foster family in her own unique…

There are too many children in this world living without a family. Every child needs love, nurturing, guidance and someone to take care of them. The care giver does not necessarily have to be married or a couple. A single person can be a great care giver and family to a child as any couple. Here in the United States there are hundreds of thousands of children in foster care waiting to be adopted. Some will get adopted and some will just jump around from foster home to foster home. The wait to be…

The concept of foster care and adoption can be traced as far back as the Old Testament. The book of Esther tells the story of a young girl who was taken in, after her parents died, by her cousin and became queen of Persia. Although Esther’s story has a happy ending, many of the children in today’s foster care system do not. The teenagers who are aging out of foster care has the steepest hill to climb. The system is set up to be a temporary solution until they can locate a permanent home for the…

Contacting Biological Of the over 400,000 children in foster care in the U.S., 114,556 cannot be returned to their families and are waiting to be adopted. (Adoption Statistics) For the children who are lucky enough to be adopted, should have the option to contact their biological parents. When the child is old enough to make their own decisions, the adoptive parent should ask whether the child wants to learn or have any sort of relationship with their biological parent. Contact with an adopted…

Deforestation is clearing earths forest bringing negative effects around the world. Giving negative results to many species that live there . The forest only covers up to 30% of the world land area. Each and every year it loses about the size of panama. Forest are cut down for many reasons, but most of them are related to money or to peoples needing to provide for their families. The biggest purpose of why people cut down trees is because of their agriculture people wanting to farm their crops…

Colorado gets about 15.9 inches of rainfall per year. Rain used to be one of the best things that could happen in this state, but as humans pollute our world more and more, rain is becoming harmful. Our precious rainfall is becoming more and more acidic, which is causing harm to plants, wildlife, buildings, and humans. This acidic rain is commonly referred to as acid rain and more properly known as acid deposition. This research will thoroughly examine acid rain, it’s causes, the effects on the…

Sodium polyacrylate is a polymer with a unique structure, that chemists are leveraging in a variety of lucrative industrial applications. Sodium polyacrylate possesses a unique chemical property: the ability to absorb incredible amounts of water. It can absorb 300 to 800 times its weight in water (Superabsorbent Polymers). Industrial chemists have taken advantage of the polymer’s special function, and have incorporated it into dozens of different products. In fact, the industry behind…

At the water molecule occurs the covalent bond. Hydrogen has an inferior electronegativity compared with oxygen.4 Oxygen attracted the negatively charged electrons, and it makes the oxygen has a negative charge. 4 The opposite applies to hydrogen, and makes it has a positive…