Foster Care Environment

To be loved, to be praised, to be cherished; three things that every child in the world wishes for. It is a parent 's job to grant their children with these needs. However, some children are not as lucky as others and are not blessed with the caring parents that they deserve. Luckily, the foster care system is there to help. The foster care system helps provide safety and care for children whose families are unable to do so.

I can determine if pony boy Curtis should stay with his brothers or go to foster care and get taken to another family to live with. I am going to give you three reasons why she should not go to foster care. The first reason why he should not go to foster care is because he hasn 't done anything wrong. Darry and Soda sent him to school to get a good education. Darry and Soda had to drop out to get money to pay for food and other things.

The foster care system shatters like broken glass and there is no repair for broken glass. Permanent damage can only be fixed with drastic solutions, redesigning the system is the method to follow. Foster parents go through hardships and trials while trying to adopt children. Children need stability and the parents willing to give them that they cannot be with forever. A reason for a shattered system is the result of a shattered admissions process.

The foster care systems has and will always be a part of society. The idea of a foster care system has always been around, even if it was not properly attained in the past. There has also been other methods to try to find placement for children with no or bad homes, for example the orphanage train, living with widows or living house to house in a community. Now in today’s time, we have an organized system of foster care with two different types of homes for children. For example we have group homes, which is a care facility that houses six or more children at a time.

Have you ever thought about how it feels to be ripped out of the only place that you know as home? To get no explanation of why your parents just did not want you anymore? Not a lot of people think about this. Usually, the only people that do think about this is children that are experiencing or have experienced this problem. The children’s rights website stated that, “On any given day, there are nearly 428,000 children in foster care in the United States.”

Common misconceptions associated with being in foster care portray youth in the system as orphans. Youth in foster care are supposedly delinquents, and will perform poorly in academics compared to their peers who are not placed in these institutions. In society, these stereotypes are often pretended, but very little people understand the circumstances and factors the youth in the foster care system are facing. Youth in care are often juxtaposed to their community counterparts, to signify the impact of being a ward of the state, rather than being with a family member.

“Housing and Social Support for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care: State of the Research Literature and Directions for Future Inquiry.” By Susanna R. Curry and Laura S. Abrams. In this article, the authors focus on the stability and placements of youth aging out of foster care. Curry and Abrams tell us the challenges foster care youth face, such as accessing and maintaining affordable and safe housing. They compare their adulthood with a normal teenager transition to adulthood with more support available, the foster youth face many challenges that make it hard to have a positive outcome.

Many of the placements are done to carry out the systems policies and other placements are done if foster parents don’t meet the child needs. Children are less likely to be moved many times if a foster family is prepared to meet the child 's challenging needs. The foster care system is also in need of more social workers that will ensure that the child is placed in a good family so that they are not moved several times. Plenty of placements are also done if the child is initially placed in short-term care but needs to be moved to long term. However, the more changes a child experiences decreases the chance of them returning home or being adopted.

600,000 children in the US go through the foster system each year. Those are children who were neglected, abused, or orphaned. The foster care system still has its flaws and many children do fall through the cracks. The number of children in the foster care system could continue to increase if abortion in made illegal in the

a. Foster parents can have an impact on the lives of a foster child by giving them a safe place to stay where they can feel loved and cared for. Foster parents can also provide the love and support that these children need especially if they came from an abused or neglected home. According to (Hasenecz, 2009) there have been several shocking stories about children being abused and neglected while in foster care or even worse reports of social workers who knew of the abuse and neglect and failed to report it or do anything about

With broader changes, comes great affects and by in fact changing the way the foster care system is built, a decrease in suicidal ideation will

Being involved with the whole system changed how I thought about it and I now realize just how important the matter is. When I say I am involved in the foster care system, I am meaning that one of my closest family members was in

Lack of support for foster parents’ effects: the agency, the children and society as a whole. I believe that a lack of support among the foster parents at First Home Care is an unmet need because of the complaints, questions and concerns I hear not only at First Home Care but for the foster care system as a whole. Being a foster parent is hard enough for parents because it’s a new experience and new challenge with children who have been through more than most of us can only imagine. Most of the time, other than the agency, these parents have no outlet and no one to talk to about the challenges they do face, so they hold in everything they may be going through, and therefore, nothing gets resolved. The complex needs of children in foster care

Experiencing rejection and parental unavailability can cause, children develop behavioral patterns that have negative consequences for social-emotional development. Multi placement in foster care is linked, to poor social functioning as well as, emotional difficulties. There are also negative impacts on child behavior when there are multiple placement changes. It makes it hard for children to have a good relationship with their foster parents when they 've, had multiple changes in placement.(Hodges 2156). There are frequent, anxiety and depression diagnoses among foster children.

Literature Review Throughout the years, research has been conducted on the effects that foster care can have on children. In the United States alone, there are roughly 670,000 children who have spent time in the foster care system each year (“Foster Care,” 2017). Of those children, approximately 33% of them age out of foster care system. Studies then show that the foster care system has had varying effects on the children who are/have been a part of it. In many cases, studies have noted the effects of attachment for children in foster care.