Essays on Foster Care

Introduction

Social work is a noble endeavor of the highest order. In the midst of all sorts of negativity, man still finds time to help his fellow beings. A charitable organization can also be a source of income if one has the resources to further this cause. Donations and volunteering are the major source of income for non-profit companies today. Twin Cedars is one such organization that is involved in charity for empowering children, youth, families, and the community in general. This essay begins with the goals and objectives and the formal structure of Twin Cedars. It also discusses the ...

This paper puts focus on baby Kim who, after a premature birth, tested positive for meth and a subsequent intracranial bleeding. Other manifest characteristics of baby Kim detailed poor development in feeding and learning. Following the difficulties, Kim was taken to a Child protective Services unit where it was put under the care of one McCallister.

Biophysical Considerations of the Case Study

The baby’s problems are associated with prenatal drug exposure. As evident in the case study, Kim’s mother is an ardent abuser of crystal meth, a drug whose impacts are both short term and long term. In the long term, abuse of ...

1. Foster care system exists many years and became one of the most acceptable solutions for children that are deprived of care of their parents for different reasons. But why is it so important? What obstacles may there be on the way of children becoming a part of the foster care family and how they can be overcame? And finally, is foster care system in the US developed to a proper level or there is still space for improvement and reconsideration? These problems will be considered further in the paper. 2. Children are the most vulnerable part of any ...

Working bibliography

Bruskas, Delilah. "Children in Foster Care: A Vulnerable Population at Risk." J Child Adolescent Psych Nursing Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing 21.2 (2008): 70-77. Web. The article by Delilah Bruskas is devoted to children in foster care, which presents a serious problem of child treatment, family relationship, and problems connected with it. The aspect of the research described in the article is the influence of foster care and maltreatment on the mental and physical development of a child. The authors analyzes different literature sources of the topic and explores the concepts of oppression and domination and ...

Health Belief Model

In the past century, many health-based models have been developed and implemented in order to help nursing professionals to identify and incorporate key factors in improving patient-centric services and health outcomes. The Health Belief Model (HBM) is one such model that is associated with the psychological and health behavioural change model associated to change and predict health-related behaviours. The HBM was developed to be incorporated and adopted by healthcare services (Dardis MR, Koharchik LS, Dukes S. 2015). The HBM was developed by key psychologists in 1950 in the US. It is one of accepted theories in the US with ...

Research outline: Drug Exposed Babies in Foster Care

Research outline

The aims of this research are CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION Define the term “drug exposed babies” Explain how babies get exposed to drugs Chapter one will give a background of expectant mothers, their social behaviours especially with drug addiction This chapter will tie the relation between mother being on drug and its effects on the baby becoming drug addicted CHAPTER 2: METHODOLOGY Interview managers and care givers in the selected foster care facilities Observe the selected children in each foster care facility Locate environmental and other factors that further contributes to the observed issues CHAPTER 3: LITERATURE REVIEW

Illustrate why these babies end up in foster care even though some of their parents are a live

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As adults, there are times when we reflect on our childhood years and feel very emotional about situations whereby those vested with our care and protection failed to consider what was in our best interest. More often than not, children feel that their voices are not being heard, that they are being treated unfairly or that their real problems are trivialized and sometimes ignored. Child advocacy is all about speaking out on what is in the best interests of children, their needs and rights. Some of the issues in child advocacy include child abuse, foster care, parental substance abuse, ...

In their article “Children in family foster care have greater health risks and less involvement in Child Health Services” Köhler, M., Emmelin, M., Hjern, A., and Rosvall M. examine the disadvantages that children face being in foster care. The major aim of their article is to examine the impact of children’s being in family foster care on their health. In order to do this the authors made a research with the help of which they were able to thoroughly examine the issue. They are rather persuasive as their research is supported by numerous evidences and statistics. All ...

Throughout the nature of all beings, parents are those who raise their children and have the responsibility for them as well as the right to raise them in the way they see appropriate. Since only the human beings developed its literacy they were the only ones who codified this right of having and raising children. In the United States, the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution comprised a statement that “no state [shall] deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process.” (U. S. C., 14th Amendment, 2016, Web) In Mayer v. Nebraska (1923), the Supreme Court of ...

Introduction

Foster children represent a vulnerable part of the human population that require special legal protection due to their exposure to risks such as mistreatment, rape, sexual abuse or assault, criminal behavior, child, child labor and neglect. Hence, the existence of a strong foster care system backed by legal and institutional frameworks is important to ensure maximum protection afforded to children placed under foster care. Foster children are usually children with no families or parents or those children whose parents can no longer take responsibility of their care and protection. In the US, each state has a Department of Child ...

Abstract:

Mental illnesses altogether place a significant burden of disorder on young people. They induce adequate negative outcomes short- and long-term in several domains. Many youths with mental illnesses such as Bipolar disorder and Schizophrenia fall into the clutches of the criminal justice system (CJS) due to their risky behavior. This leads to a problematic quality of life. The main objective of the paper is to highlight about the mental illnesses in youth and the criminal justice system. A web search was conducted and quality articles were retrieved. It was observed that mentally ill youth encounter trouble with regard to ...

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Honorable Ryan Anderson: As the coordinator of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for the civic and religion society at the Heritage Foundation in Washington and around the nation, I am writing to express my strongest concern over the newly proposed sexual orientation laws. The laws have been coupled with redefined acts of marriage and same-sex unions that are being designed to attack the freedom of faith-based organizations and private agencies in advocating for increased children adoption. I am an adopted child who was connected with my family through a private agency and supporting the ...

Goal

The purpose of the project is to prevent child abuse in Butte County through the construction of a childcare center that will help in providing awareness, treatment, counseling, and housing services to victims of child abuse.

Process Objectives

Provide treatment and counseling services to atleast1500 victims of child abuse victims Offer temporary housing to about 2000 victims of child abuse in Butte County Receive 1000 referrals in through establishing a communication network with other institutions and agencies Hire 80 employees who will provide services to victims of child abuse in the facility Hold educational forums that will provide public awareness on ...

The first discussed organization is the Happy Hippie Foundation established by a singer, performer and actress Miley Cyrus. The organization’s official website page can be found at the following address: http://www.happyhippies.org/. It is a non-profit organization that operates on a national level. The stated mission of the organization is to “rally young people to fight injustice facing homeless youth, LGBTQ youth and other vulnerable populations” (“The Happy Hippie Foundation,” 2014). The foundation speaks out against judgement of young people, who differ from the majority of population on the basis of their sexuality, sexual preferences, social status and other ...

Abstract

There seems to be a particularly significant burden on Muslim families who want to adopt in the United Kingdom (Ali 2013; Meer and Modood 2009; Frazer and Selywn 2005). Muslim families are less likely than other religious groups to adopt, and there are a number of reasons why these individuals might struggle more to become adoptive parents than others. There are no de facto rules against Muslim families adopting children, but the reality is that Muslim families adopt much less frequently than other groups. They also struggle with ensuring sponsorship to the United Kingdom and other legal standards—these ...

Question No. 9

Public assistance is controversial in American society because of the belief that has taken root that poverty is basically the fault of the poor. This goes, in part, back to the idea of the Puritan work ethic and the concept of the American Dream, which teaches that anyone who is willing to work hard can succeed at whatever he wants to accomplish. While this is a positive statement, the inverse means that there is an assumption that people who have not succeeded somehow are intrinsically lazy or simply do not want to get ahead. This attitude is corrosive because ...

The Institutional Affiliation

Reading review The chapter Cheryl Zlotnick and Luann Devos called Transitional Families, explores peculiarities and aspects of living in a transition state. First of all, it defines the transitional family as a family whose “structure, living situation, or both” are in flux. The author’s argue that the number of transitional families in nowadays society increases and the issue should be addressed more intensively. The Unites States Department of Housing and Urban Development reported that one-third of people who used homeless centers were families (2008). Transitional families can be divided into a few subgroups. Families that belong to the ...

Adoption is a process whereby a person seeks the parenting of another from that person's legal parents and as such acquires all rights and responsibilities along with filiations from the biological parents of that person. Persons under the age of eighteen are the likely subjects of adoption. Adoptionis different from other forms of child care such as fostering because it is intended to have a permanent effect on the lives of both the child and the adoptive parents. It gives them status and societal recognition. Adoption was done through legal or religious means (Karyn B. Purvis, 2007). However, this ...

Transition Plan

Joseph Lansing is a second year student (eight years old) who is currently studying at Samuals Elementary School. He has been recently removed from his mother who had been accused in abuse and torturing the children (Joseph and his sister) and put into the foster care Mr and Mrs Smith family for two months so far. Joseph's sister stayed with the family members, that, according to the corresponding authorities' check had not enough place and conditions to host both children. It is reported that the siblings have not seen each other for almost two months (since the time they ...

Life is full of obstacles and choices. Some of my most difficult obstacles and choices have concerned my foster father, Steve, and my biological father, Tony. One is kind, funny, gentler, and successful. He is always striving to help others and is supportive of those around him. The other is not successful, drawn to drugs and alcohol, loud, abusive, and unsupportive. Though he attempted to help my brothers and I when we were homeless, he still somehow managed to hurt us. Because of these two men, I have seen two different sides of life, and have been fortunate enough ...

The case presents Joseph, a 2nd grade student at Samuels Elementary School, who had to be taken in to foster care after his mum was imprisoned. Joseph has faced physical abuse, and neglect during his stay with his mother. Various professionals including the school counselor, case manager, guardian, school administrator, school psychologist, and the social worker have tried to help him by reviewing his case using different psychological perspectives. Employing different methods to evaluate a case may result to several intervention strategies, and solutions been applied which may not work for the individual. Therefore, it is essential that different ...

Joseph Lansing

Joseph Lansing Joseph Lansing is an 8-year-old child recently removed from his mother’s care following an abuse and neglect investigation. The child has been placed in foster care as the family caregiver who has custody of his sister was determined to not be an appropriate placement for the child. The patient recently made threats to bring a gun to school, later reporting having said this so he could see his mother who is incarcerated for six months which will be followed by inpatient substance abuse treatment. Additional information which would be helpful in better assessing this case would ...

I had the opportunity to interview Mrs. Taylor Cole, a Licensed Certified Social Worker - Clinical (LCSW-C). I met Taylor through her spouse who works at my job place. Her husband and I began talking about Social work and he mentioned that his wife is licensed and had opened up her own business. Taylor has her own private practice in Maryland. Her business is in support of children who have or had involvement in foster care. As CEO of her own company, Taylor is responsible for providing therapy to clients, billing, and tech support. Taylor is responsible for both the ...

Per our last conversation, you requested for the formulation of an employment law compliance that will be used for your start-up limousine service business located in Austin, Texas. You also indicated that you will have an initial 25 employees for the first of the year of business. This memo shall explain the various employment laws that have to be implemented by your company. There will be a discussion on the possible penalties that you will have to deal with for noncompliance of these employment laws. It is imperative for the company to abide by these laws to remain in compliance. ...

Abstract

Homelessness in the world is significant humanity problem, which while many will acknowledge needs to be resolution, they also seemed to be unmoved with making a change. The stigmatization associated with homeless people is spread through the misinterpretations of the reasoning of how the individual arrives at their situation. This is largely a problem for the ever increasing population of homeless youth which has risen in the last several years due to the economic situation and familial factors in which self-determination and perseverance take priority. The problems that many homeless individuals face as well as youth is the lack of healthcare. ...

Law

Executive Summary This essay will present recommendations on how to improve the present policies and programs for children with incarcerated parents in Florida. One of the major program types for incarcerated parents is the Special Parent-Child Visits. This special type of program will provide opportunities for the parents to spend extended time with their children on-site inside the prison grounds. These types of visits may be in the form of overnight or special occasion visits which cover special programming efforts, meals and crafts, camping in a structured and well-supervised area inside the prison (Ferro, 2007, p. 27). This report ...

Child abuse is serious and an increasing problem across the country. Stories that exemplify tragic and severe examples of abuse and neglect are often publicized while many children continue to live quietly in situations that are never mentioned but equally disturbing. Child abuse and neglect impact as many as 1 in 4 children in America today. . There are many causes of abuse and neglect. The parents may not know how to properly care for children or have a history of being abused themselves . Substance abuse is also common. 70 percent of maltreatment cases involving children also involve substance abuse. The ...

English

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND IMMIGRATION REFORMS INTRODUCTION On November 20 2014, President Obama spoke on immigration and stated, “We were strangers once, too. And whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic, or the Pacific, or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in, and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship”. The United States of America has existed as a country with many immigrants originating from those who initially crossed the bridge that ...

Executive Action Plan for Immigration Reform

The immigration laws in the United States are in need of an update. This country is originally made up of immigrants, and immigrants today contribute to our economy. Citizens of the United States have varying views on immigration and the laws that should or should not be upheld. Being an immigrant myself, I feel that immigration is of a large to concern to myself and my family. I would not have been able to come here, receive an education and start a family if the immigration laws were stricter. The Republican Party is upset at President Barack Obama for pushing for a ...

The topic of Abortion Law in United States seems to be a big issue for both American people and American lawyers. In my opinion, the number one reason of this is that abortion law is different all over the states. The US has long held its conservative views on abortion: in Europe, they were legalized much more earlier. From state to state there were some concessions, but it didn’t change the situation very much. The turning point came in 1973 at the end of the process, "Roy vs. Wade", which began in 1970 in the state of Texas. ...

Introduction

Juvenile Prostitution, or child prostitution, is a type of sexual abuse involving the commercial sexual exploitation of children, in which a child provides the services of prostitution for the financial benefit. The term generally refers to prostitution by a minor, or a person below the local age of maturity. Many countries have employed strict laws against juvenile prostitution, which may include the people older than the age of maturity, for consent. Victims of juvenile prostitution are the most overlooked, misidentified, and underserved type of children. The lines differentiating between the roles of the victims and offenders in prostitution have begun to blur, ...

Reactive attachment disorder (RAD) is defined by DSM-V as a developmentally inappropriate and disturbed attachment behavior that is characterized by underdeveloped attachment towards the primary caregiver. RAD was introduced in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, third edition (DSM-III) in 1980 and is considered as one of the disorders of infancy as it is thought to occur as early as 9 months of age (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2013). Attachment could be defined as a predisposition of an infant or child to seek comfort from a specific attachment figure, whom they consider as their primary caregivers. RAD is a condition where ...

Adoption is an alternative way to having a family. A child is given a new family when their birth families cannot support them or are absent from their lives. For most people, adoption is the only way to have a family life. Adoption has been popular in the US in the recent decades. In the United States, there have been 677,000 private domestic adoptions, 661,000 foster care, and 440,000 international adoptions (Vandivere, Malm & Radel, 12). There are different types of adoptions for every type of family and each has its own processes and rules. The process of adoption ...

Introduction

Foster care is a relatively understudied topic among a wide spectrum of social issues in the United States. In plain terms, it competes for funding and the attention of the public consciousness with social security, Medicaid, medicare, food stamps, the United States Veterans Initiative, and many other programs. There is also the fact that absolute numbers of children in foster care have dropped in recent years (Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2013, p.2). Currently there are approximately 400,000 individuals under the age of 18. At the margins 45% of children were in foster care for less than one year. At the ...

Gay marriage remains one of the controversial issues in American politics. One of the critical topics associated with gay couples entails adoption of children for foster care. The issue of gay couples to adopt children is one of the political issues in the United States. These are based on the fact that the voters’ decision focus on the issue as one of the agendas towards elections. The political history and election decisions are based on whether the candidates support the gay adoption or not. Adoption of children by gay couples for foster care has been legalized in various states. ...

Social problem

The social problem to be addressed in my paper is the mistreatment of children. As a society, we have defined this problem and created standards for a child’s environment that we deem healthy. Ideally, the environment for a child should always be safe; emotionally, physically, and socially safe for their proper growth and development. The entire society is expected to have the children’s best interest at heart. When the environment of a child is reported and proven unsafe or insecure, the state government intervenes in the matter to help provide a conducive home for the child. This is where the Foster Care ...

Preface.

Foster care story is an illustration of the lonely child who lacks the natural love and permanency from the natural parents and families. Foster children encounter social, emotional and legal dilemmas in their quest for reunion with the lost warmth and refuge provided by the families and the permanence. The foster children are curious to know why they are facing these problems (Whiteford, 2010). The video celebrates foster parents, mentors and social workers who have dedicated their time, resources and love to provide the children with foster care that is paramount to them. The film shows the strong hope ...

- Juvenile Delinquency - Theories of Delinquency Throughout history, communities and experts have varying opinions when it comes to explaining why there are juveniles or minors violating rules and laws. According to Martin (2005), early experts and communities tried to explain juvenile delinquency with two theories: demonism and naturalism. Naturalism pertains to the ‘practice of linking human affairs with the natural world, justifying human behavior with the influence of nature.’ For example, if the change due to lunar and solar cycles, human behavior is also affected by these forces. Ancient civilizations in the Mediterranean use this theory ...

One of the most discussed and controversial questions of the past thirty years is the question of the gay marriages. Although it has attracted a lot of attention of the scientific community, that has studied the problem seriously, researchers still cannot reach an agreement on the issue whether or not same-sex marriages should be legalized. Even the more difficult situation is with homosexual parenting: many psychologists consider that raising the child in homosexual family would harm his mental health. Though, another percentage of scientists prove that there is no difference between raising the children in the traditional and nontraditional families. ...

will help lower child abuse Children who come into foster care experience undergo maltreatment or abuse at one point of being in the foster care system (Dozier et al., 2009). In an article written by Bruskas (2008), over half a million children in the United States are under the foster care system. In the same article, it was said that children under the system are vulnerable and that traumatic experiences and increased exposure for more wounds like physical abuse or maltreatment and unstable environments add to the children’s vulnerability. Many of these children have a poor developmental and educational ...

The problem the writer talks about it basically related to the homeless people living in South Florida. It is a big deal that a place like Florida, which is in town set and where people from all corners come to live for having a better life actually does not have much facility to prove the homeless people and has ranked 3rd among the states with most homeless population! The livesof the homeless people are becoming tougher day by day. The writer has put up the reasons why homelessness really takes place. The essay starts by defining homelessness as a stage where a person does ...

Born December 29, 1960 in San Francisco, California, David Pelzer grew up facing what has been considered the worst child abuse in the history of California at the hands of his mother, Catherine Roerva Christen Pelzer. His father Stephen Joseph Pelzer, a San Francisco fireman died earlier in 1980 living him with his mother who later died in 1992. He was the third child in the family with four other siblings, who were all boys. Pelzer, who is now married with lives with his second wife and children in a different state, was helped with the intervention of his teachers on ...

- The relationship between peers and delinquency. Peers groups have very close relationship with criminal behaviors. As it can be seen in most cases, criminal acts are committed in minor groups rather than solo leading to co-offending. Youths who have insufficient peer relations in most scenarios are the ones who are likely to become criminal. The young who maintain criminal friends are the ones who are likely to engage in disruptive behaviors and use of drug abuse. Youths who report inadequate or strained peer relations are the ones who are most likely to become delinquent. Some kids are ...

It is generally known that nowadays’ family institution is in the doldrums, with divorce rate being at its highest, parents not wanting to raise mentally handicapped children, abusing proscribed substances or not being able to maintain them. These are very few reasons that cause parents to abandon their children only for them to be adopted by a new family if they have such luck. However, as per scientific researches, children to enter a new family face a whole variety of mental issues that may keep them from growing into fully-fledged individuals. They have hard times trying to get themselves acclimatized in their ...

The article is about a study that was done to examine how common teenage pregnancy is among young women in and out of foster care. The data used in the study were from the Midwest Evaluation of the Adult Functioning of Former Youth (Midwest study) and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add health study). The objectives of the study were: to find out the likelihood of young girls aging out of foster care to become pregnant; to compare their likelihood to become pregnant to that of young girls from the general population, and to find out the effects ...

Ileana Ros- Lehtinen, Congress woman.

U.S. Representative for Florida's 27th congressional district 2206 Rayburn HOB

Washington, DC 20515.

Dear Mrs. Lehtinen.

RE: Plight of the vulnerable children in foster care.

Children under foster care are abused, molested and neglected due to extreme circumstances that occur in households, requirements to be a foster parent aren’t adequate to sufficiently keep children in good hands and they should therefore be revised. Various reasons may cause a parent or court to place a child in foster care units and as a result, therefore an innocent child should not suffer from the foster parents. As a health policy, advocacy and nurse student, it is my request that you will champion for the amendment ...

Abstract

Childhood development may be evaluated on the basis of the environments within which they grow. In this case, the mainly considered places for bring up children are orphanages, foster care centers, as well as family homes. Each of these places of growth may have unique influence to the development of a child. The differences that may be defined in this case are differences on the principles of bringing up children in the different sets of children homes. Although, orphanages are the most common homes for abandoned and orphan children, they are the most challenging environments of bringing up children. ...

Developing and training a group of volunteers or Community Residents who can provide community education around some problem like child abuse in foster care facilities. The society is usually surrounded with a lot of problems, which negatively influence the well being of people. Sometimes dealing with these challenges becomes extremely challenging. Some of the problems are rampant and are deeply rooted in the society, and they need exclusive efforts to be eliminated in the society. Various facilities have witnessed exclusive social challenges where exclusive measures must be undertaken. Outstanding examples of areas that have faced extensive problems are children foster ...

Adoption is the process of facilitating guardianship of a child by an adult who legally acquires rights and responsibilities of a parent by doing so. The child called adoptee becomes the legal heir of the adult called adopter and this process terminates legal rights of the natural parent. There are two types of adoption. Open adoption entitles the birth mother to select the adoptive parents of her child while closed adoption takes away all her rights over the child and entitles a State Agency to select the adoptive parents. In some jurisdictions, natural parents can visit and contact after adoption in a regulated ...

Introduction

The Administration For Children And Families (AFC) endeavors to deliver quality services to the targeted youths, children and families. These services range from Child support, welfare, foster care, adoption assistance to overall child care programs. In order to achieve this crucial objective, the AFC is composed of an organized human resource management structure which makes it possible for this organization to deliver their services to the concerned parties. In this section of my assignment, I will major my focus on the organization design of AFC in regard to its human resource.

Organizational Design

The Administration For Children And Families was founded ...

ABSTRACT

Homelessness in America is a persistent, complex, and widely-occurring problem that incorporates many economic, social, and psychological dimensions. After years of war and economic decline, the ranks of the homelessness have grown to include families with children (35%); military veterans (23%); children (25%); persons fleeing domestic violence (30%); and the mentally ill (20-25%) (National Student Campaign, 2012). Additionally, the number of homeless young adults, aged 18-to-24, is growing, giving homelessness a new face.In the problem of homelessness, some people perceive a call for greater human compassion, while others demand more effective social policy and more comprehensive public health services. Still others insist ...

One of the biggest social justice and welfare issues concerning the nation today is the welfare of its children. What everyone can agree upon is that child welfare is of the utmost importance. What people cannot agree upon is how best to increase the health and welfare of the nation’s children. One topic in the hot-seat of the nation’s current debate on child welfare is whether or not gay and lesbians should be allowed to adopt children. According to a 2006 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) book, in 2006 there were 500,000 children in the American foster ...

Children without parents or any reliable familial support are among the most vulnerable members of our society. Their protection within society poses a major challenge to child care policy makers. The international aid community has placed primacy on the protection of orphans across the world. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is guiding these efforts through a rights based approach to children and child welfare. The UNCRC has set standards for the protection of children without parental care, orphans and other vulnerable children. This paper will analyze the historical treatment of orphans based on the prevailing ...

Homeless people, by definition do not have a fixed residence, but that is where the simplicity ends.

“A 2008 survey by the U.S conference of mayors asked 25 cities for their top three causes of homelessness. Drug abuse was the largest single cause of homelessness for single adults reported by 68% of cities.” Homelessness & Substance Use Disorder Treatment (2010) Drug abuse and homelessness is a sort of chicken and egg debate not only because of its age and importance but because either can result in either one i.e. someone can become homeless as a result of chronic drug use or a homeless person can become dependent on drugs as a result of homelessness and being exposed to chronic ...

Over the years, child abuse has been depicted in art, literature, and science all over the world. Child abuse is an ancient problem and has been going on for ages (Bensel, Rheinberger & Radbill, 1999). Yet, for years, no one paid enough attention to this issue. Fortunately, today there child abuse is clearly recognized as a serious problem all around the world. There are a variety of cultural, economic, and social factors that contribute to child abuse, and there are different types of child abuse that can take place. The purpose of this research paper is to define child abuse, describe the ...

1. The children in foster care can be helped through the Foster Care Independence Act of 1999 which established the John Chafee Foster Care Independence Program. a. This act allows the states to increase their funding and flexibility to help young people transition to adulthood. Indeed the funding can’t be enough for all the states to assist the aging youths but a number of actions can be done to improve this situation. b. To start with, the states can source for more funds which they can use to support the foster care to promote sustainable programs which ...

Children and families well being

Poverty and lack of parents does not subject any one to sexual harassment, sexual abuse or physical abuse. In any case, people with such social status problems should get the best care and concern from the society and the government as a whole. According to piper, every child is entitled to a good life and equal opportunity in life especially while growing up. Children should get equal rights as adults and should have the right to make choices especially with regard to bodily harm. There is a law that protects children against violence and abuse (piper, 2000). It gets worse to ...

Psychology for Health Professionals

The definition of the term health requires inclusion of a broader sense beyond the original biomedical meaning, which is the presence, absence of disease causing agents or symptoms in a patient. Biopsychosocial approach delivers this definition effectively. It recognizes that an individual’s health is dependent on an intricate interaction of psychological, biological and social factors . This implies that experiences, culture, and healthcare approaches by the childcare givers to children have a direct impact on their heath. The Maori culture recognizes that family, spirituality, physical wellbeing and emotions affect health. Health professionals must be well conversant with family dynamics, culture, and ...

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Life Insurance Introduction Insurance is a means to manage the risk of financial losses incurred due to unforeseen events and contingencies. Unforeseen events can be in the form of accident, illness, fire outbreak or loss of life. These incidents are not only emotionally stressfully, but also financially draining. Insurance is critical for protection of the latter. Primarily, there are three components of an insurance agreement, the insurer, the insured and the policy holder. In case of a life insurance policy, the insured and the policy holder are usually the same person. For a home insurance policy, home is insured and ...

Foster Care

Foster care is known as a very distressing period for the child due to the separation from the parents. In most case the process is known to cause resistance and conflicts and due to this reason it is very essential that the natural parents, social workers and the foster parents give full support to the child through the process of separation. For those children who contain issues on attachment, the nature of transitory of the foster care system has been illustrated as problem and this can add to greater problems or issues. The children who are taken in foster care ...