The system to be changed to make sure every child has a stable and loving home. The U.S foster system is to complicated causing the children that are in the system to get hurt emotionally and even physically. Each year hundreds of thousands of children spend their time in foster care. In 2015 670,000 children were living in foster care. (“Care”) Of those children the average age was around nine.
“During the 1990’s, the nation’s prison population increased by 50 percent, the number of children who had a parent in prison increased by the same proportion, from 1 million to 1.5 million children, these children represent 2 percent of all minor children in America” (Travis & Waul, 2003, p. 3). Overall, imprisonment places an indescribable burden on the relationships between parents and their children. Incarcerated parents must learn how to cope with the loss of normal contact with their children, infrequent visits in inhospitable surroundings, and lost opportunities to contribute to their children’s development. The children must come to terms with the harsh reality of an absent parent, and the stigma of parental imprisonment, as well as the altered support of the family system that may include grandparents, foster care, or a new adult in the home. Children whose parents have been arrested and incarcerated face unique difficulties.
Some suffer throughout their whole young adult life and only get away from it when they are grown and move out of the house. Others never get away from the abuse even though they are grown. The epidemic of abuse has continued to rise over the years. According to the Child Welfare Information Gateway Child abuse has different definitions for different states (Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2011). This information can be found on the Child Welfare Information Gateway at their website www.childwelfare.gov.
Single Parents with Young Children Beckford, Martin “The Telegraph” Oct 10, 2008. In reviewing research from Martin Beckford, Social Affairs Correspondent with The Telegraph, I learned quite a lot of interesting information pertaining to the emotional problems children raised by single parents face. Research says that children from broken homes are five times more likely to develop emotional problems than those living with both parents. This could be true, due to the fact that parentless children, seem to act out more, when one or both parents are missing. The Office of National Statistics, interviewed parents, teachers, and children themselves, and found that many suffer from emotional problems such as depression, anxiety and aggression.
Even with that drop in the death rate, SIDS is still responsible for about 3,000 deaths per year (“Sudden Infant Death” 1621). There is a theory that SIDS is caused by rapid development. This theory that SIDS is a developmental thing argues that because a baby's brain is growing so quickly during its first six months of life, there is a chance that it may send an abnormal or wrong message to a critical organ system. Another theory is simply that these infants are just not healthy to begin with. This idea says that the baby's time in the womb before it was born may have placed it more at risk.
Every year, more than 200 million children under five years old fail to reach their full cognitive and social potential. Most of these children live in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. As a result of poor development, many children are likely to under-achieve in school and subsequently to have low incomes as adults. As adults, they are also likely to have children at a very early age, and provide poor health care, nutrition and stimulation to their children, thus contributing to the intergenerational transmission of poverty and poor development. Despite the overwhelming evidence, the health sector has been slow to promote early child development and to support families with appropriate information and skills.
Studies have shown that children who have come from urban, low-income and minority parents are investigated far more than the “average” family for child abuse and neglect (Child Welfare League of America, 2005). In 2008 a survey was conducted to gather just how many children were in the welfare system versus the percentage of the total child population and the results were alarming. According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2008 American Community Survey, the African American child population was only 14% while 31% were in foster care versus the White; non-Hispanic child population was 56% to 40% in foster care (Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2011). Knowing the external factors that exist that include poverty, instability of homes, and a lack of resources are part that affect the child welfare system and the ethnic
Despite very significant attempts to improve outcomes for looked after children, this social group remain vulnerable to social exclusion. Why are young people leaving care vulnerable to social exclusion and why do policy initiatives appear to falter? Critically Discuss. “It has long been apparent to those working with young people in and leaving care that many experience considerable difficulties related to poor physical, mental and general well-being, which without adequate support, can have a lasting impact on future progress” (Dixon, 2008:207). For young people leaving care, such ‘difficulties’ are highlighted in research which suggests in 2006, only 12% of children in care achieved 5 A* to C grades at GCSE, compared to 59% of all children, and 38% leave care prior to the age of 18.
Language is linked to the development of literacy. Children who have poor speech will find it difficult to understand the link between sounds and letter shapes so reading could be delayed. Writing will also be affected. Finding ways to help the child communicate will help their self esteem and help prevent them from antisocial behaviours. If it’s listening or talking, some children and young people find it very difficult to communicate.
His biological mother was on illegal drugs and his father was in jail. Matthew had four biological half sisters and one full sister; all of them had already been adopted or were in the process of adoption by different families. Unfortunately, this is a common story for many children in the United States. The number of foster children is on the rise due to many causes. “As of the middle of 2016, more than 18,000 Arizona children are living