Foster Home Abuse
The challenges of being in foster care are many. Foster parents are expected to provide a safe environment and care for the children placed within their homes. Unfortunately, this does not always occur and some children are abused and often put in a worse situation than they were previously in. A study was done containing maltreated children and nonmaltreated in foster care homes to determine the research question “whether selected physical health, mental health, or behavioral child characteristics reported either before or during foster care were associated with substantiated maltreatment in care?” ( Benedict, Zuravin, Somerfield, & Brandt, 1996) Grant 90-CA-1367 funded the study.
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The information about the kind of abuse in the foster family homes can help social workers and placement agencies put forth more or different training for the foster parents (especially if the foster child is a female). From a social work point of view it is important to understand why foster children behave the way they do and what is going on in their current environment. From a child’s point of view, foster care can be a scary place to be. Most of the time children are removed from their homes, schools, and friends. It can be confusing and stressful to lose everything they knew in an already unstable world and enter someone else’s house. Rules are different, the food is different, and they might have to share a room with someone that’s unfamiliar. This research opens our eyes to the trauma these children endure so that hopefully we can prevent future abuse in Foster …show more content…
Table 1 illustrates that children who were sexually abused or neglected were significantly less likely to be in kinship placements than physically abused or nonmaltreated children.( Benedict, Zuravin, Somerfield, & Brandt, 1996) There were tables giving us a variety of useful information. This study was very small and the number of participants could have been bigger to produce more accuracy. There are ethical considerations in the study. Is the people’s privacy protected? This study was done in the state of Maryland, will they be kept confidential? Are the researchers being objective? The researchers gathering information could be from the same area as they are taking data from and not want to believe people that come from there behave (or abuse) that way. Which leads to being honest. Is all of the information true and
The information about the kind of abuse in the foster family homes can help social workers and placement agencies put forth more or different training for the foster parents (especially if the foster child is a female). From a social work point of view it is important to understand why foster children behave the way they do and what is going on in their current environment. From a child’s point of view, foster care can be a scary place to be. Most of the time children are removed from their homes, schools, and friends. It can be confusing and stressful to lose everything they knew in an already unstable world and enter someone else’s house. Rules are different, the food is different, and they might have to share a room with someone that’s unfamiliar. This research opens our eyes to the trauma these children endure so that hopefully we can prevent future abuse in Foster …show more content…
Table 1 illustrates that children who were sexually abused or neglected were significantly less likely to be in kinship placements than physically abused or nonmaltreated children.( Benedict, Zuravin, Somerfield, & Brandt, 1996) There were tables giving us a variety of useful information. This study was very small and the number of participants could have been bigger to produce more accuracy. There are ethical considerations in the study. Is the people’s privacy protected? This study was done in the state of Maryland, will they be kept confidential? Are the researchers being objective? The researchers gathering information could be from the same area as they are taking data from and not want to believe people that come from there behave (or abuse) that way. Which leads to being honest. Is all of the information true and