Textbook Adoption in California, 1879-2014

Making decisions about the future for a child in foster care can be difficult and controversial. "Options include: returning the child to his/her birth parents; termination of parental rights (a formal legal procedure) to be followed, hopefully, by adoption; or long-term care with foster parents or relatives. Most states encourage efforts to provide the birth parents with support and needed services (e.g. mental health or drug/alcohol treatment, parent skills, training

I will be using this source from pages nine to eleven. It talks about the history of foster care, what it is like, and child welfare. It explains the past when children worked in fields and in the house. Since this was going on around the 1800’s, death was very common among young children and adults. These problems soon led to the foster care system. It was discovered in the late 1800’s. The children traveled to New York to get away from their troubles and to find a better life. Those children were later adopted and given a new life because many believed those parents were not parenting in the right way. They were given a life that would let them strive and become educated. It states that the foster care is something that is growing every day, helping those children in need. Most of the cases mentioned, the children were abused and the foster care was the only way to help them.

Adoption is defined as the “act by which an adult formally becomes the guardian of a child and incurs the rights and responsibilities of a parent.” (Legal Information Institute, 2015). The first legislation ACT to govern legal adoptions was made in Western Australia in 1896 at a peak of high infanticide and infant mortality rates. Since then, new legislations have been made across each state and adoption rates have been increasing steadily. However, as indicated by a series of National Data collected by the Australian Government, following the peak of almost 10,000 adoptions between 1970 and 1971, there has been a sharp decline in adoption rates. Over the last decade specifically, there has been a low and steady rate of 400-600 adoptions per

Many people think of education as a ladder of opportunity, a way for them to advance themselves and to escape their adversity. “Education” is a collection of stories that relays the educational experiences of the authors and their families in the 1940s-1960s, a time when education and certain career opportunities were not readily available for everyone. For some, bias and discrimination discouraged them from getting access to education. Women were restrained by the conventional view that women should confine to “traditional” careers such as teaching or nursing. Sandy Garrett recounts how young women in the 1950s and 1960s essentially had three choices upon high school graduation: nurse, teacher, or homemaker in “Strength of a Tall Oaktree.”

During the 1930s and the Great Depression parenting was not focused on, but today it is a nationwide discussion. The laws developed for children's rights in the 1930s have changed parenting today since every child has a home, parents ensure a solid education, and children are no longer abused and neglected. The law regarding every child having a home states, "for every child's home and that love and security which a home provides" (Children's Charter)." During the 1930s many families were struggling economically, but they still had to ensure their child had a loving home. Today having a home is less of a problem than having a supporting home. Some parents today have begun "helicoptering" their children when it comes to education

I believe that society has changed for the worse. The reason I believe this is because society in the past was much simpler. There was not a lot of technology available to individuals. People are starting to lose the art of communication. Instead people text one another in text lingo versus using proper grammar. Family units in the 1950's, 60's, and 70's were much different than they are today. There were more families with two parents in the home. There was less single parent household or step parent households. the more society evolve and changes the worse our society is becoming. The more technology is incorporated into our lives the further people seem to be getting from one another. In the 1950's a traditional household consisted of one mother, one father, two or three children, and a

Attachment is vital to development. John Bowlby (1988) states, “ Study after study attest that healthy, happy, and self reliant adolescents ad young adults are the products of stable homes in which both parents give a great deal of time and attention to children” (p.2). This statement has powerful implication for children and infants without parents who spend most, if not all of their young life in orphanages; more specifically orphanages where attention is minimal. In 1729 the first orphanage was established in the United States. In the 1800’s orphanages grew and in the mid 1800’s charitable groups established 56 institutions for children (Bremner, 1970, p. 5). Downs (1983) theorizes that these institutions were a way for the wealthy class

The type of social environment that you are born into will affect the rest of your life. Our Kids by Robert Putnam describes the lives of 20 kids around the United States and the type of social environment they had growing up. The main topic of Our Kids is how socioeconomic status relates to upward mobility and unequal opportunity in society. Previously, people from all socioeconomic classes were experiencing upward mobility during the Golden Age of Capitalism, but nowadays only the upper-middle class and the rich are experiencing upward mobility.

Many books have been challenged or censored during different places and time periods. For example, the earliest book censorship in America was done by the Puritans in the 1600s. Seven decades ago, the Nazi Regime censored and modified The Bible in order to create a version that suited their ideologies. Today, “10 percent of all books” are removed from the public view (“2016 Book”). Nearly “ninety-nine percent” of the books that are challenged are pulled, or essentially banned, from three locations that need it the most: “the public library, school, and school library” (“2016 Book”). These are the places where people obtain knowledge from and it would be a loss to libraries to have a book removed from their shelves. Right now, the two largest demographics that support censorship are “parents and patrons” (”2016 Book”). In the past, they have had an upper hand due to financial backing from patrons, people or organizations that commit to a cause. These supporters believe that censorship must exist to prevent harm towards readers. On the other

Foster care is a system that evolved from children being maltreated in the past. Starting in the 1700s children were treated as property and not as humans. Many children worked for free to pay off debt for their families. One of the places families dreaded the most were almshouses. Almshouses were used to assist the elderly and the poor. During the 1700s almshouses were one of the only options for aid to the poor families. These families faced the possibilities of being turned away because they were not married before having children or because they do not have the ability to physically work off the debt they gain from receiving charity from the almshouse. During the civil war in the 1800s orphanages were formed to give families a better chance to live a quality life and not have to pay back those who are helping. Orphanages began to focus on children who had been neglected and did not have a family to rely on after the first child protective service investigation. In the investigation it is discovered that a 10 year old girl was being whipped and cut with scissors by her mother. From then on the government began to work on the cps system while Charles Loring Brace formed orphan trains. Orphan trains gathered all the children without a home a transported them to another area where a family could take care of them. At the time it all sounded good but unfortunately, there were very few children who had a success story from orphanages. Many children on orphan trains suffered

If you are currently entertaining the thought of adopting a child, you also need to think about what type of adoption that you would like to have. The type of adoption you choose will determine if and what type of relationship you have with your child’s birth parents. The three main types of adoptions are closed adoptions, semi-open adoptions and open adoptions.

Courting controversy examines the implications that arise when teachers assign challenged books, and when parents challenge books. The author, Pat Scales, relates an experience of a teacher who added a challenged book to her reading list in support of a colleague in her district faced a challenged on the book Working by Studs Terkel. The author believes that teachers following curriculum policies should decide what is taught in the classroom, not parents. One solution put forth to squash book challenges is to offer the student an alternative novel. Yet another scenario the author relates occurred when a parent requested a recommendation for a website that labels content in books. The solution presented was twofold: encourage the parent to

The American dream is summed up into the life of having a big house, with a picket fence, happy marriage, and having 2 children. Well that used to be what the stereotype was, but nothing is ever really that simple or perfect. The days when that would have been a reality is back somewhere in the 1950's, when women took care of the domestic duties and the men took care of the financial duties. Not everyone subscribes to that idea anymore, which makes childbearing a choice of sorts. Society has changed since the 1950's quite a bit, and so has the ideas behind becoming a parent; it's not longer as big a deal to not become a parent. The decision to not have children isn't always based on their wants, there are those who are unable to become parents based on lifestyles types. Another major reason young adults choose to not have children is based on educational and financial statuses.

If a participant is an adoptee of an open adoption, they will be released from the testing. The reason why they would be released is because they still have a relationship with their biological family, yes, they are adopted and may have identity issues but they have knowledge of themselves through their biological parents. The “young” group will consist of the participants who answered 1 or 2 on question 1, and the “older” group will consist of the remaining participants. After the participants are separated into these two groups they will be given another survey to take. In this survey the participants will be answering questions regarding the environment at home and at school. This survey will try and estimate different action and choices

Parental involvement has been an issue in the United States since before the turn of the nineteenth century. Perhaps one of the most well-known organizations in support of parental involvement in schools was created in 1897. The National Congress of Mothers set up a statement of purposes that created the basis for their organization. The purposes included: “the education of parents for child development; the coöperation of home and school; the promotion of the kindergarten movement; the securing of legislation for neglected and dependent children; and the education of young people for parenthood,” (Butterworth, 7). The Congress of Mothers evolved in 1908 into the National