Persuading a Child to Choose One Parent over an Other

The Applewhites have changed throughout the book, but these three have had the greatest change. Jake Semple started off as a black-hearted thirteen year old who got expelled from every school he has been in. He even started a fire in one! The last school he could enroll in was the Applewhite’s Creative Academy, if he got kicked out of this school he would be sent to Juvenile Detention. When Jake was sent to live with the Applewhites he thought they were a very unusual family. But after a while he grew used to their strange ways and even started to like them. When Jake took part in the Applewhite’s play he didn’t want to be known as a wrongdoer, he wanted to be known as an actor. Throughout the book Jake changed from a cold-hearted lawbreaker

Foster Care Independence Act of 1999 Before this bill was signed into law the Federal Government provided about $70 million per year to conduct programs for adolescents leaving foster care that are designed to help them establish independent living. Research and numerous reports from States conducting these programs indicate that adolescents leaving foster care do not fare well. As compared with other adolescents and young adults their age, they are more likely to quit school, to be unemployed, to be on welfare, to have mental health problems, to be parents outside marriage, to be arrested, to be homeless, and to be the victims of violence and other crimes (Cook, 1991). The need for special help for youths ages 18 to 21

In todays’ society many Americans never think about our foster care system. Foster care is when a child is temporarily placed with another family. This child may have been abused, neglected, or may be a child who is dependent and can survive on their own but needs a place to stay. Normally the child parents are sick, alcohol or drug abusers, or may even be homeless themselves. We have forgotten about the thousands of children who are without families and living in foster homes. Many do not even know how foster care came about. A few of the earliest documentation of foster care can be found in the Old Testament. The Christian church put children into homes with widowers and then paid them using collection from the church

Although standing out as an individual may seem as a reliable option for some, in most cases conforming may also be the best as well. As examples, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, “Shooting an Elephant”, and “Little Boxes” demonstrate acts characters face in order to choose when it is right to conform or when it is right to become an individual. In the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Huck is faced with a dilemma of trying to find himself as a person in a world that does not really understand him. In addition to trying to fit in with society, he is caught between deciding whether to conform into what everyone's thoughts are against Blacks or becoming an individual and standing up as to what he thinks should be done.

Foster care: The system in which a child under 18 years old is placed in a group home, institution, or private home through a governmental or social service agency.

Every year in the United States, hundreds of children and adolescents are taken from their parents and primary caregivers and placed in out-of-home care situations due to issues in their homes and family lives which contribute to unsafe living conditions. These children and adolescents often face many health, behavioral, developmental, and psychological issues.

Foster care has been around for years, it is a place for kids with no families to go or for kids who's parents didn't want them. It isn’t all bad. When someone gives up a child, they are giving someone who wants a baby/child and can’t have any, a chance to be a parent. There are a lot of problems with the system. That is why people should keep an eye on the child, they do not understand why things happen to them. If one foster child says they are getting abused someone should watch them and they should have surveillance cameras in all rooms of the home to ensure that the children there are not mistreated. For at least a month or two.“Parenthood requires love, not DNA.” -Anonymous (“Foster Care Services”)

According to the National Foster Youth institute, “More than 23,000 children age out of the US foster care system every year.”() Aging out is the process of a teens transitioning from the legal control of the foster care system, to independent living. Youth aging out of foster care should be given an extension on foster care services after the age of 18, because it provides a stable home for teens, it increases the amount of college graduates and it provides healthcare for those in need.

Foster care is supposed to be temporary, but for many teenage youth in foster care it is often a permanent solution. Foster care was never meant to raise children into adulthood. Even though foster care is supposed be temporary, most teenage foster youth reach their 18th birthday and become emancipated and end up living their lives without a family. Currently, 40% of foster youth in the system are between the ages of 11 and 21 (Child Welfare 3). Foster care is supposed to be a temporary arrangement in which adults provide care for children whose parents are unable to do so, due to issues within the family such as neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, or homeless. The earliest documentation of foster care can date back to the Bible, which

Each year, an estimated 20,000 young people "age out" of the U.S. foster care system. Many are only 18 years old and still need support and services (. Several studies show that without a lifelong connection to a caring adult, this older youth are often left vulnerable to a host of adverse situations. Compared to other youth in the United States, kids who age out of foster care are more likely to not have completed high school or received a GED, they often suffer from mental health problems, many are unemployed and live in poverty, and nearly 40% become homeless.

Foster care is something that 400,000 children in the United States, go through. I have personally been through this myself. To improve foster care for children, I have created a website along with an app. The name of both the website and app is Foster To Success. Foster To Success will especially be useful for foster youth, social workers, potential adopters, foster parents, and any additional people, who work with foster youth. But it can also be useful if you are going through a hard time. The app is free and available on iOS devices at the App Store, and on Andriod devices on GooglePlay. If you would like additional features the cost is ninety nine cents. I believe this will help improve foster care and help make it an easier transition for the children.

Helping these vulnerable children access the services, interaction, and the stability needed for them to grow-up to being successful members of society can be provided with foster placement. If the process is well planned and if the foster parents are given adequate support, the foster care system can be a valuable resource for abused and neglected children (Crosson-Tower, 2014, p. 321).

So before a child can be taken into a permanent home, they are in foster care homes that provides temporary placement in a family setting.

     According to many the custody of a child should be determined with the best interest of the child in mind. However, it is not easy for a

Fortunately, I had the opportunity this summer to work at the AT&T Foundry as a summer intern. AT&T is one of the largest telecommunication carriers worldwide and this was a very unique experience that I’m grateful to have been given. During this 10-week internship, I was able to work with some of the most talented engineers in the world as a fellow member of the Internet of Things Machine to Machine Department. I was mainly responsible for a wheel chair project, in which, I explored the various ways to detect the motor failure in a wheelchair.