Article #3 Notes

Adam B

Mrs. Zurkowski

Yellows

24 September, 2010

Gathering Information- Notes

"Foster Care." Issues & Controversies On File: n. pag. Issues & Controversies. Facts On File           News Services, 6 July 2009. Web. 24 Sept. 2010. <http://www.2facts.com/article/i0300620>.

·         It is a huge decision for children to make when their parents abuse and neglect them. Should they go into foster care or continue with their dreadful lives?

·         When the foster parents take care of the foster children, they are given money to help support that child without having to use their own money on them.

·         Many officers think that foster homes are not permanent enough since they are going back and forth from home to home in little amounts of time.

·         “Residential-treatment centers are the most expensive type of foster care, due to the high cost of the various kinds of therapy offered there, along with room and board, medical and dental care, and recreational programs” (2).

·         Now foster care agencies have to think of a solution to each foster child’s own situation because of the passing of the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act in 1980.

·         Adoption is a possibility for every foster child, but the main thing to do is to actually help these children return back to their original families.

·         “While abuse can occur in foster care as well as in biological families, critics of family-preservation programs say that it is more common that children who have been returned to their natural parents are further abused or killed by them” (3).

·         Many people have said that putting your kids in foster care is way more expensive than just providing social services for your family to help with their problems.

·         Many foster care agencies say that is important for the foster child’s biological parents and their current foster parents to confront with each other and talk about their issues.

·         With an increase in foster children, there is also a huge increase in government spendings to help fix the problem, which people say is a big help for foster children.

·         Also, many children have a lot of problems that are difficult to handle, so adoptions are low for this very reason since people will not want to deal with these problems in foster children.

·         Many foster children are on the bad side of life with addictive and drug abusing parents. This will make their lives painful and dreadful from the start.

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