I loved the Instant Family movie! It reminded me of my family’s fostering process, which has been one of the most emotional and rewarding experiences of our lives. I liked how the movie portrayed the difficulties of fostering in a positive and humorous way. I want all my friends and family to watch Instant Family […]
There are nearly 438,000 children navigating the turbulent waters that is the foster care system in the United States. The same system which can be argued is a broken system. These children are typically bounced from foster home to foster home, for years at a time, suffering countless traumas both physically and emotionally while waiting […]
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Get startedThe subject of foster care has become an increasingly more popular topic of discussion in recent years. Youth who are placed into the foster care system are primarily victims of physical abuse, sexual abuse, and/or neglect. Recently, more studies have been conducted to understand the effects that being placed into the foster care system has […]
Not everyone has the opportunity to live in house filled with joy and laughter, nor are they able to live with a forever family. Countless of kids weren’t fortunate to be able to have parents to care for them, so they were forced to either find relatives or be put into Foster Care homes. These […]
“In 2015, more than 20,000 young people — whom states failed to reunite with their families or place in permanent homes (“51 Useful Aging Out of Foster Care Statistics ”). It is evident that in the U.S. there is a shocking amount of young adults who age out of the child welfare system without a […]
Aging out is a term used to describe foster youth who turns the age of 18, the child goes from being a part of the foster system to being on their own (Munson et al., 2013, p. 921). Foster youth aging out of the system must accomplish tasks that other children do not face. Most […]
“Role perceptions of foster care in African American kinship and non-kinship foster parents: A quantitative analysis” is precise and short clearly outlining the purpose of the study hence meeting the requirement of research articles titles that they should be brief and precise. This allows the reader to clearly understand what the research is about avoiding […]
The question of whether or not parenting should be regulated or licensed is a difficult one. On the one hand, the number of children who end up in foster care because of incapable parents is staggering as is the number of children from broken homes who are unable to regain their lives after being abused. Even […]
The journal article entitled “Aging Out’ Gracefully: Housing and Helping Youth Transition Smoothly out of the Foster Care System” by Gabrielle Richards studies the youth population of the foster care system. That are about to face the transition into independent lifestyles after reaching the age of 18, or ‘aging out’ of the system. This article […]
Most people do not know this about me, but I was in foster care for the second half of my childhood. I aged out and have not been able to establish any contact with my parents after my adult life began. I think that the fact that I do not get to know about my mother […]
The youth, is the future. Today’s youth, today’s generation, is going to be what drives the future. But, just how many are willing to invest in the said builders of that future? Hundreds of thousands of those minors who are today’s tomorrow, are living in foster care. They’ll go in and out of various homes, not […]
One of the most prominent issues facing American social workers at this time is how we care for children in foster care and what happens to them once they leave the system. Too many times, children in the system turn 18 and are turned out on their own with little to no help. Occasionally, a […]
There are many ways one can interpret the gradual socialization of a community. One of which can be seen from the vantage point of a symbolic interactionist, who explains the symbolic meaning that is placed upon objects, behaviors, and events in the process of social interaction. To try to understand how a symbolic interactionist might […]
In 2013, the adoption and foster care analysis reported that 402,378 children were currently in the system in the United States. Of these children, 50% of them will not finish high school. (The AFCARS Report) Currently, this system requires the movement of children instead of providing them with a singular, stable home. The failure of the […]
Serious Problems With The Foster Care System The foster care system in the United States has serious flaws that Americans do not realize. foster care is not a very trending subject; however, as Andrew Bridge demonstrates in his memoir Hope’s Boy, the foster care system has serious problems regarding the well-being of the children it is […]
The Foster Care systems that are in operation today are very minimally funded and provide a very low success rate of the children that come out of the foster child system in most states. The media labels the system as a last resort, that it is almost a punishment, when in reality the children have done […]
After a fourteen hour car ride, I finally see the sign in the distance, just a few more minutes till I can be back at the camp that has changed my life. This camp is named Long View Ranch and is located in the mountains of Mosheim, TN. Over the past eight years I have […]
Can you imagine being born already in the foster care system? Then being adopted and after that going back into foster care? Some can’t even fathom going threw it but I did. As soon as I was born I was a ward of the court and after that I was adopted by my auntie. Ten years […]
Forty percent of all adolescents that age out of the foster care system end up homeless (Scannapieco, M, Carrick, K, & Painter, K., 2007). From the Orphan trains to the Children’s Bureau, foster care has been a controversial and well researched topic in the United States. The Orphan trains gave children the opportunity to be […]
Aging Out of Foster Care This short documentary, Aging Out of Foster Care, presented by Jennifer Rrooks, focuses on young adults who age out of the foster care system, specifically in Maine. Rrooks poses a few questions like: “How are they faring?”,”What needs to happen to give them a fighting chance in life?”, and “What […]
In today’s world, children grow up in seemingly perfect homes and have everything they need to survive, thrive, and be happy, but this doesn’t happen for every child. Some children grow up in a totally different way. Imagine being raised by people who aren’t your biological parents. Oftentimes, being transferred from home to home. Never quite […]
