Broken System: Foster Care

According to Dashaun Jackson who was raised in a foster home, “I found that foster care did not build families. It didn’t give me the opportunity to be a child. It forced me to mature a lot faster than my peers. It made me live life thinking that “today is the day that I’ll be leaving,” so don’t get comfortable and definitely don’t get attached to anyone.”

Another factor is that social workers did have harder times finding homes that are willing to open up to foster siblings. Waln Brown, Ph.D. stated in his analysis article, The psychological consequences of separating siblings in the foster care, “The experience of been separated from family and placed in the care of strangers leaves a bloody scab that may never quite heal.” (2017). This means that the effect of being taken out of a home is traumatic on the child let alone taking away their siblings makes the situation worse for

These bullies who torment the disabled children are not being informed that maybe at home the child´s family did not eat because they had to pay for another doctor´s visit. Family´s that have a disabled member are always struggling with these problems. Families struggle with social issues, financial issues, and much more. If people are informed of this world wide problem these problems may be limited.

Undocumneted parents have a hard time deciding whether to make their children orphans or exiles. The massive deportations in the United States have left lots of American children orphans. Zayas highlights that “in the worst of all possible cases, parental deportation may cause the child to fall into the child welfare system” (Zayas 189). Consequently, immigration policy harms the rights of the children by separating them from their parents and being placed in a system they do not belong. According to the Child Welfare Information Gateway the “Child welfare system typically receive and investigate reports of possible child abuse and neglect; provide services to families that need assistance in the protection and care of their children; arrange for children to live with kin or with foster families when they are not safe at home; and arrange for reunification, adoption, or other permanent family connections for children leaving foster care”

Growing up in a single parents house is difficult for any child. You have to grow up with just the guidance of both parents. You don 't get they love from the mother or the strictness of their father. The children who have to go through this tragic event go through a lot of denial, grief and even depression. You have to watch your parents go from loving each other, to being pushed so far apart.

Depending on where his parents settled in the United States, their inability to find work could have been due to their level of education, prospects due to geography, or perhaps, something more insidious, such as racism or xenophobia. In any event, as a result of their failure to succeed in their adopted country, Dad turns to alcohol and eventually leaves the home. Mom, like many single mothers, must work multiple jobs to pay the bills and must rely on neighbors to care for her child, or leave the child to fend for himself. During the most critical developmental years (through age 7), Shobbit develops feelings of abandonment, since he is essentially raising himself.

I wanted to bring attention on how allowing almost anyone to foster can affect a child mentally, physically, and emotionally. I believe this paper held very important information and statistics showing how being placed in a bad home can permanently damage a child’s outlook on life and his or her

My fight that is when a child is placed in a foster home that the people taking the kid in are checked into to see if they are going to treat the child properly. I chose this topic because it bothers me deeply that foster children aren’t treated correct. I mean, if anything they should be treated better because the people taking care of them don’t know what happened to them in their lives and the parents are there to take care of this child. Instead, they are just taking advantage of them and telling them to do stuff they do not want to do. Foster children are just like any other child and they should treated like it.

This story ¨The Veldt¨ shows disobedience in many ways. Disobedience means failure or refusal to obey rules or someone in authority. In the story ¨The Veldt¨ by Ray Bradbury the problem is that the kids are addicted to a nursery and how the nursery works is whatever the kids think happens in the nursery and the parents have no control over their children to stop going in the nursery. As the story goes on the parents decide that the house is too much for the family and want to move out. In the end the kids end up having no more parents do to the kids actions.

The impact of children trafficking on the Children and their Communities presented “ It is very common that a majority of them quit schooling to work for their family’s survival.” This statement goes for older children. Obviously, the child wanted to support his or her family, but only found a job which he or she most likely did not know what it was about. “ Girls trafficked into prostitution are very unlikely to be provided with enough time and encouraging atmosphere to go to school, to study, or to develop other skills necessary for a career change,” said the Impact of children trafficking on the Children and their Communities. Because the girls do not have enough support or time they will most likely not want to study.

My question is how would it make a difference sending him away because he is not living the right way? It will only make him worse than he is now. Foster Care is the worst place to send a child. The reason why is because a foster care home is where kids are not wanted, and there are many there. In foster care, you are not the same as you were with your family.

The article reviewed the issues that occur in a child’s life in regard to their education when their parents are incarcerated. Vacca points out that the children of parents that are incarcerated often “experience emotional withdrawal, failure in school, delinquency, and the risk of intergenerational incarceration” (49). He also suggests that many people in our society do not realize that these children “…often they lack any positive intervention from homes and community agencies” which allows them to fall through the cracks (Vacca

Care homes are temporary homes for children and adolescents whose parents/ carers are unable to look after them. As there is a range of children from different races, personalities, belief and more it would be easy for them to clash and get discriminated against. For example lily a younger child living within a care home is being picked on by an older child within the home. So to resolve this she told one of the carers in the home. Because there was two different stories between the children the carer decided to believe the older child because they thought lily was overreacting because she was younger and didn’t understand.

M., Jones, D.J., Kincaid, C Y., Cuellar, J., & Parent, J.M. 2012) Single mother is unable to provide her children with a strong family foundation or family values; this indirectly causes psychological effect on both the mothers and children. Statistics show that Office of National Statistics shows that children raised by single parents is high chances of suffering from mental health conditions as they would if they were staying with married parents (Adkison-Johnson, C 2015). In most cases, Single black mothers tend to isolate themselves from the world that in results effects the children and they do the same. The negative influence from being isolated for the children effects in their growing stage, which makes him/her, reserved personality (Gonzalez, M., Jones D., & Parent, J 2014.)

Minors in care show certain themes that can damage their reputation in adulthood. Acknowledged by Ainsworth and Hansen, movement of homes while being in care puts children at risk to someday be placed as a juvenile offender, become a parent at a young age, and to endure poor educational achievement. Thirty-eight percent of males and thirty-nine percent of females in detention have a history of being in foster care services (89). Ainsworth and Hansen also report that there are a number of fosters who are under seventeen years old and are pregnant or getting someone else pregnant (89). Allen S. Barton and James S Vacca, authors of ¨Bring Back Orphanages-