System Theory Anna Meece Eastern Kentucky University Introduction My At-Risk population is the children in foster care but not only are they in foster care these are the children that nobody wants. The boys and girls are older ages are harder to adopt because not many people want to take them. The only reason they get out of the system is by aging out of on rare occasions of going home, but that’s doesn’t happen often .They are an At-Risk population because there are so many of them right not in the system that it is getting to be an epidemic. Too many are going in and not enough are coming out. Sure they get placed in a very loving foster home but that foster home is not a pre adaptive one so they don’t get to know what a forever family
On the other hand, Katha Pollit is arguing in What's Wrong with Gay Marriage? That there is a shortage of families willing to adopt abounded and disadvantaged children. Most gay couples if they wanted to raise a child would adopt one; this is beneficial to society as a whole and the child. Rather than having to grow up in children's home and being shipped around from institution to institution the child would be put in a loving home. Second, the population growth rate of the world is fast outpacing the capacity of the earth.
The lack of education leads to further development of barriers such as a financial barrier and poor lifestyle that makes them unable to provide for themselves and their child. Most jobs that do not require a high school diploma only offer a minimum wage and do not offer adequate benefits to meet all medical needs. “key indicators of health, infant mortality rates and low-birth weight rates, were elevated when infants were born to mothers who were less educated” (Flores et al,1998). Considering that statement I believe that the biggest barrier affecting this vulnerable population’s health is education. Vulnerable mothers that do not finish getting their education become discouraged and loose the motivation and drive to tackle the oncoming challenges that life brings, creating for them another barrier on the micro level; it being a financial barrier.
In the article “Just whom is this Divorce good for? By Marquart she explains, “We found that children of so- called “good” divorces often do worse even than children of unhappy low- conflict marriages. They say more often, that family life was stressful and they had to grow up to soon. They are themselves more likely to divorce and children of divorce feel like divided selves”. I would have to agree with that because I am actually going through my parents getting a divorce and when I found out I didn’t want to believe it at all I didn’t want to see my parents split up it just wasn’t right to me.
More couples are choosing either to not get married, get divorced or even homosexual couples are raising children and are considered to be a family. The trend is now more non-traditional than what would have been the norm fifty years ago. This essay will attempt to look at how the changes in family structure impact our children and the different family structures that now do exist and their consequences to mankind. The most important issue at hand is how this is all affecting our children. The children are the ones that will carry on our society and it is our jobs to teach them morals and values.
One U.S. study found that parents with documented substance abuse, most commonly alcohol, cocaine, and heroin, were much more likely to mistreat their children, and were also much more likely to reject court-ordered services and treatments (Besharov, 1990). Children with a history of neglect or physical abuse are at risk of developing psychiatric problems, or a disorganized attachment style. Disorganized attachment is associated with a number of developmental problems, including dissociative symptoms, as well as anxiety, depressive, and acting out
We all put our pants on one leg at a time, so why give a minority group such a hard time because they are different from the majority. In the video the topic came up that children raised in a homosexual family would have a hard time being social. I believe that they will have a much better chance with a social life for two reason. First reason they have already probably been through criticism for being different and their family helped them get through that ordeal. Second, homosexual people are some of the socialist individuals I know.
As the individual grows up, they find themselves more sensitive to the judgement of those around them. In many cases, interracial relationships could be broken directly due to family opposition; depending on the importance of the families’ judgement in the couples’ life. As a result, family opposition is a very common and prominent conflict that affects interracial dating
He or she is likely to end up in trouble with the law than their peers without the proper support (Cowan, 2004, p. 1008). Like everything, this varies from case to case. Most adoptive parents tend to want younger children, not necessarily an infant, but one that is under 8 years of age. In most cases, older children that are closer to aging out of foster care have a harder time because of
They shape sexual behavior in society (Flood 2012b). These social norms may vary depending on one’s social status. Social norms are, to a great extent, influenced by forms of social difference like gender, race or ethnicity and class. This essay’s focus will be on how these three social differences have shaped social norms related to sexuality. By applying the cultural lens to sexuality, the social norms regarding sexuality can be identified (Mills 1959).