There are a growing number of children who have entered the child care system because of the breakdown in family values and the challenges that parents face because of personal, social, economic or conditions. The children in these care systems are sometimes victims of abuse in the homes and have to be removed from the homes for a number of reasons. Despite the reasons for placing children in child care services, the increase in the numbers will place a strain on the economic structure of the government as children have become the wards of the state.
Children who are in these care systems become the responsibility of the government and parents are no longer required to offer emotional or financial assistance. As such the government must find the economic resources to help to provide shelter, food, clothing and the other basic amenities for these children.
The problem in financing child care has placed a strain on the society as a whole as the institutions require financial support from private and governmental organizations. Deanna Gomby et al postulate that the high number of children in the care system “complicates the funding system which in turn vexes the administrators and families, (Gomby et al 1). In addition, the challenges intensifies because of the limitations on the availability of the services, the lack of affordability in caring for the high number of children, mediocre quality of care, and the poor wage packages for those who have to care for these children (Gomby et al. 1).
Children in family care services receive the benefits that they may not have received in families that are unable to affordable the proper care for their children. But, the challenge with these conditions is that the number in the cares service has increased significantly and more often parents are relinquished of their duties of being the ones who teach the children of the values of their lives.
Works Cited
Gomby, Deanna et al., (1996) Journal Issue: Financing Child Care Volume 6 Number 2
Summer/Fall 1996, Web 18 Mar 2016 <https://www.princeton.edu/futureofchildren/publications/journals/article/index.xml?journalid=56&articleid=325§ionid=2168>
