Research Paper On Foster Care

Many children are suffering due to various complications in their life. Children of all ages end up in the foster care system year after year. Their hardships influence them to feel really depressed and stoic. Many people do not read autobiographies, but the book, Three Little Words by Ashley Rhodes-Courter teaches people about the complications of a first-hand foster child, how the foster care system is, and book reviews of famous authors and well-known magazines, as well. The story gives hope to people who believe there is no way out anymore, and it influences upon the world’s culture greatly.

While arriving to the foster home, I seen them gardening outside. We all sat down at the kitchen table, and began to talk about rules and all that good stuff. Cindy which is the foster mom had to call the foster dad Jerry because he was working, which he is a teacher at high school in Mauston. After he arrived, we began to talk about the positives, and the negatives. I knew i would be fine, until my mom had to leave, that's when i knew everything wouldn’t be alright. She gave me hug, and i couldn't hold back. But after a couple of days with being there, it was alright. I started to be able to talk to my mom on the phone, and in 2 ½ months, i could go on a community visit. I started to love it their more and more. Jerry and I became closer and closer, Cindy and I never really did connect. But throughout the nine months, everything changed. The whole house was fighting, i thought throughout these couple of months, i would be able to move around the fighting. It was all going well until one night, when Jerry brought up, all my mistakes. Then everything went down hills, i wanted to be out of the house, and then i found myself making even more mistake then i was while being home. My social seen that also, mostly every weekend i was sent right back to jail. I was running from the foster home, fighting, drinking, all this stuff i highly regret. And i now know i could never take back. If i could do this all over again, i would, it sucks i wish i could of had a better experience, because not many people get to do what i got to do when i was sent to foster

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

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Many children encounter difficulties which could include abuse. Neglect, and physical and sexual abuse just to name a few, are types of abuse that unfortunately cause children to be taken from the home and placed into foster care. Removing them from the home can be devastating to children involved, but placing them into foster care help eliminate the possibility continued abuse.

This paper is a summary of what research has been done in the field of foster care. It will focus on foster care social workers, foster care parents, children in foster care, etc. In this work there will also be reference to aspects of adoption and foster care together. This paper will encompass all parties affected by foster care and will ultimately talk about what qualities are expected of social workers who work in foster care.

For my Engagement Activity I conducted a series of research activities on foster care. It wasn’t exactly a specific organization, but a variety of them. This was to have different functions of how foster care and adoption works to unite new families together.

An adult’s psychological development depends on one’s childhood experiences with adults and their capability of providing nurturance, protection, trust, and security to the developing child. Children with current and previous ties to the foster care system were found to have behavioral, emotional, and social well-being issues. The United States averages more than 400,000 children in foster care during the year. Amongst these 400,000 children, as many as 50% have developmental disorders or psychiatric diagnoses (Hutchinson). Children placed within the foster care system are more likely to be found to have mental health issues due to the inadequacy

Foster Parent One: Shelly was born and raised in Avery, TX. She is the biological daughter of Delores Jackson and David Monsiviaz. Shelly was adopted by her maternal aunt and uncle, Eura and Woodrow Hicks at the age of 3, Shelly’s mother was killed in a car accident and her father was not accept by the family due to his ethnicity. Shelly reported she was informed by her adoptive parents that her biological father was dead as well. When Shelly was an adult she searched and located him, however she has never contacted him because she feels that should have been his job.

from the state, leading to revision of the state agency policies and regulations and also the initiation of the new program to create extra support for child welfare.

Recently, at my internship I was involved in a re-placement foster home with a six-year old child unknowingly. Initially I was under the impression that I was transporting this young boy back to his original foster home, after a parenting time visit. However, I got more that what I bargain for. I was not given much information on the child, which I would later find out would have been conducive to my approach with the incident that occurred. While transporting this child, I discovered that the child was not prepped for his reassignment to a new foster home, as well as just recently had come into care. The young boy became extremely dismayed when he noticed I was not taking him to his previous foster home.

The creation of the foster care system was with the expectation to support in the child's safety and health in their personal homes. When children experience child neglect and abuse in their homes, Child Protection Services (CPS) will have to become involved and remove the child from their homes. Once the child is removed from their homes, they become a fart of the Child Welfare System for the protection of the child. Children are placed in foster care homes with foster families. A foster home is a household where a child or children are raised by someone else other than their biological or adoptive parent or parents. It is fortunate when these children are removed from the abusive state of their personal homes. However, some children who are placed into foster care homes continue to receive further abuse.

Over the past several there has been increased focus on the foster care system with implementation of new policies and pieces of legislation to support this population. Although, initial services and support was extremely broad with the intent to meet the needs of the entire population, the youth exiting foster care due to age limitations shed light on the need for more specific legislation for this population. It is clear that youth “aging out” (Dworksy, 2008) of the foster care system are in some ways forced to transition into a role of independence much differently than the general population. There is typically no chance for this population of youth to return to the foster care system for support even if they are completed unprepared for the transition (Geenen & Power, 2007). Clearly, specific populations of foster care youth are in need of special attention particularly those aging out of the system. These youth are believed to encounter adverse challenges in areas such as incarceration, drug use, education, and homelessness. In the hopes to address the issues of homelessness in youth several pieces of legislation have been passed and amended over the years.

This is an unfortunate situation and heartbreaking to know that a father would have sex with his 3 year old daughter, but in happens a lot in homes and when children go for visits. These are very sick individual's that need deliverance in their life; anyone who would force themselves on a child has a demonic spirit and it's not right an in unacceptable. The system is screwed up to anytime there is a fact that this behavior/evidence that this child has suffered this type of abuse and the system will allow the father to have the child again to re traumatize this child is deplorable. This shows the system does not care about the children that are being served. If the child in stable in a good foster home, why should she be taken and live in fear

Nana went to jail for child abuse for about three months before she was released to BHC in Idaho Falls, because the doctor deemed her mentally unstable. Within six months of the occasion, she was back at home. Health and welfare put me with a foster parent named Gina Mercer, who lives in Milo, Idaho. We had a very good relationship right up until Christmas in 2010. We had been sledding at Community Park in Idaho Falls, and it was time to go. She told me that I couldn’t go down the hill again so anger welled up inside me. At the back of the Durango, with my sled in the back, and Gina in front of me trying to calm me down, I kicked her in the shin. This lady came over and she was on her phone with the police. Then when the police showed up, they put me in handcuffs, in the back of the cruiser. Gina was then spoken to by the officer. All that was heard from me was crying and then “don’t take me to detention.” The police officer calmed me down and said that he wasn’t going to take me to jail; he said there was this place called the Gustafson House. I went, because there was no other choice besides