April Raintree Themes

The younger children are forced into one foster home, and Camille and Regina move into a house managed by an Addie and Peter. The older couple is nice to them and has strict, but very clear, rules. At 14, Regina chooses to be legally emancipated from her mother. While grateful to be away from her mother, Regina was disappointed that she now had to live with various foster parents. Addie and Peter, however, end up helping her create a more stable

Major Themes in the Novel Pictures of Hollis Woods Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff has a lot of mixed emotions. The book is based on the character, Hollis Woods, who is a foster kid. She travels from home to home and is seen to be “troubled”. She has grown a very strong bond with one family and they are about to adopt her. It does not go as planned, so there she is again, going from house to house until she meets Josie.

Savage Drift by Emmy Laybourne exhibits the struggle of several kids as they make an attempt to save their friend, Josie, who has been forced to live in a prison comprising of people with only type O blood. Niko, Jake, Astrid, and Dean are the several kids who will be traveling from their safe haven in Canada back to the United States where Josie is located. Furthermore, Josie is making an attempt to survive in the prison with a named “INPUT” who the others of monument 14 met earlier in the story. One can clarify symbolism involving a red leaf, evaluate Astrid’s choice to take Jake along to save Josie, and predict how the monument 14 kids plan to sneak Josie out of the prison. During an argument with Dean, a red leaf falls on top of Alex’s head; however, at first one would infer that the leaf was just a random occurrence, except, through further analysis one can conclude that

The Effects of the Foster Care System on Children Foster care is a system by which adults care for minor children who are not able to live with their biological parents. The minor is usually placed into a ward, group home, or private home of a state-certified caregiver, referred to as a "foster parent". The government or a social service agency usually arranges the placement of the child. Of the estimated 264,746 children who entered foster care during (FY) 2014: 45 percent were White. 22 percent were Black or African-American.

During her stay in the bathroom, Immaculée dedicated her time to praying to strengthen her connect with God and to forgive the killers as well as she teaches herself English. Eventually, Immaculée leaves the bathroom and enters a French camp which is offered as a safe haven to the Tutsi. In the camp, she learns of the death of her parents and two of her brothers, Vianney and Damascene, as well as her brothers friend, Augustine, who was under her family’s care. At the end of the genocide she ends up at a RPF bade back in Kigali.

2015). On August 2, 2013, I’Tesha C. Briggs three children were removed from her home and placed in emergency protective custody with the South Carolina Department of Social Services over allegations that she had abused them. According to the placement plan, Briggs was ordered to complete a psychological evaluation, counseling, obtain a stable home and income and complete drug and alcohol assessment. DSS was to provide the counseling and evaluation

Foster care is full-time substitute care of children outside of their home by people other than their biological, adoptive, or legal guardians. Children are removed from their own homes and placed in foster care in a variety of reasons. Foster homes fulfill an essential social need by providing for the physical health, emotional well-being, and daily care of children who, for various reasons, have been separated from their parents. This is what foster care is supposed to be about helping children in need. In this day in age in you ask someone about foster they only see what on tv.

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.”() All of those children have to be reminded daily that the foster care system has a lot of problems in it.

(2015). Child protection investigations in out-of-home care: Perpetrators, victims, and contexts. Child Maltreatment, 20(4), 251. Retrieved from https://search.proquest.com/docview/1732543511?accountid=7098 Morton, Brenda. "Seeking Safety, Finding Abuse: Stories From Foster Youth On Maltreatment And Its Impact On Academic Achievement."

The Stolen Generation was a generation of half-caste (half Aboriginal and half white European) children taken away from their Aboriginal families by white settlers, in a period of time lasting from around 1890-1970. Aboriginal communities were either approached by government officials, who left with their half-caste children, or mothers were given documents to sign, and told that this would be granting permission for their children to be vaccinated, when it was actually to let their children be taken away. The stolen half-caste children were either sent to live in foster families, or institutions specifically run to assimilate Indigenous children into the European community. Inside the institutions, children experienced highly controlled environments,