Not every child has been fortunate enough to grow up in a loving family, and the majority of us who have had this privilege, take it for granted. Imagine the life of a foster child; these children suffer not only trauma from their unfit homes but from constantly being placed in a new foster home, relative’s home, group home or an emergency facility. These children are rarely lucky enough to have the comfort of a stable and consistent home, and many are taken from one abusive environment to another. When the government removes children from parents it claims are abusive, neglectful or unfit the government must place the children in a safer environment than the one they left. In many cases, this does not happen.
The instability is becoming a very big issue in our foster care system. I heard stories of children who seem to only stay with their families for 3 or 6 months at a time or have been with 10 families in 5 years. In this situation children are being emotionally robbed of love, care and affection; children don’t feel the need to express their feelings and emotions to a stranger or a temporally parent. One good place for 3 years is much better than 10 families, good or bad, in those 3 years. One foster child lands and stays in a loving and stable home and then get switched for many different reasons.
Children who have run away behaviour those parents find difficult to manage alone. Also children who truancy off school is another behaviour that may lead to the child’s needs to be placed in the foster care systems. Deaths: Sometimes children have to be put in care because family are unable to care for the child after the death of a parent children maybe looked after by the local authority most often it is because the child’s parents or the people who have parental responsibilities and rights to look after the child are unable to care for them. Have been neglected them or the child has committed an offence his local authority has specific responsibilities and duties for a child who is being looked after such as: 1. The local authority accommodation under a voluntary arrangement where the child’s patents agree to the child being
Rabiner (1999) quoted the results of a study conducted by Kaplan, Crawford, Fisher and Dewey (1998) which revealed that parents of ADHD children reported feeling considerably dissatisfied with their family life. The following quotation highlights the impact an ADHD child has on parents. A parent needs abundant love and wisdom, a parent must be knowledgeable about education, a parent must acquire the skills and sophistication in managing behavior that psychologists have acquired after years of study, and a parent must develop the patience of a model clergy man or woman. Although it can take a lifetime to acquire any of these skills, the demands of parenting an ADHD child necessitates that all of them be acquired in an instant. (Jacobs 1998, p. 1) as cited in Rafalovich 2000, p.
Many parents seemed to have forgotten the impact that domestic violence has on a child. A big impact is that of being exposed to domestic violence at an early age, also the effect that domestic observation has on an individual and his character. Character flaws can impact a child into his adolescent years and also affect his decision making skills in adult years. I have seen the result of a child who has been a part of a domestic violence family and home. The mind frame which an adolescent is permanently damaged with is not a healthy one.
According to the National Foster Parent Association to the 1500s, when the law allowed poor children to be placed into indentured facilities until they came of age. It was the poor English Law that lead to the development and regulation of family foster care. Indentured facilities allowed abuse and mistreatment, even though it was a step forward from almshouses (charitable homes that were built for poor people to live in) where children didn’t learn a trade and were open to terrible surroundings. This was a time it where children were placed in foster homes because their parents were deceased not because they were abused since it was socially accepted. Charles Loring Brace a minister and a director of the New York Children’s Aid Society began the free foster care movement in 1853 because he was troubled by many children sleeping in the streets.
The essay will discuss how children brought up in addicted households are affected and the effects on their adult lives. It also touches on how they handle their own families when they grow into adulthood. Although addiction can present itself in many different ways such as gambling, food or sexual, for the purpose of this essay the author will describe how a family is affected by substance abuse. Main Body Families that are affected by addiction can often be tense, painful and frightening experience for young children. The family can be put under a lot of stress and people’s emotions get minimized as the pain of what they live in is denied.
The kids are bounced from home to home and never find a permanent place to stay. The older kids are offered education and resources to prepare for a transition on living on their own. Children in foster homes face many struggles. They usually blame themselves for being in foster care and sometimes wish to return to the parents, even if the parents abused them or the kid was neglected. Taquann felt helpless and abandoned by his mom.
Cultural deprivation means when children are deprived from things what they need. This can include the lack of values and support they get from their parents, which can influence on socialisation skills. It can be argued that due to lack of family structure, social cultural and soft skills pupils are less likely to underachieve. Cultural deprivation is a theory that many working-class children are inadequately socialised and therefore lack the ‘right’ culture appropriate for a successful education. Many people argue that development is vital in the younger years in the child’s life, and the ability to solve problems and apply ideas help in the long-term.
Privation describes the lack of an attachment bond between infant and caregiver. Rutter distinguished between deprivation and privation; the differences being deprivation is the physical loss of a bond which has already been formed whereas privation is where the bond has never existed in the first place. Deprivation has short-term effects e.g. protest, despair, detachment and in the long-term can have emotional effects such as separation anxiety. However privation has much more serious long-term effects such as 'affectionless psycopathy', 'developmental retardation' and other negative effects on emotional and social development.