Foster Care Problems
Problems in Foster Care
Foster Care is a system for kids that are not in a healthy home or that do not have parents. Kids that are in Foster Care suffer from the sense of being left alone, from being unwanted, and being lost. These things create life long problems and an unstable emotional life for kids in the system. Children in the Foster Care system is overflowing, the time children spend in the system is incredibly wrong, and many children suffer from abuse in their household that they are placed in.
Overflow on System
Foster Care
Children that are in Foster care have been entered for many reasons. Some kids are orphaned and have no family to take care of them and some do not have a suitable home or family to take care of them. …show more content…
Mary Ellen Wilson, an eight year old girl, was the first case to receive media attention and legal action. She was abused and neglected by her stepparents. Henry Bergh, who founded the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, directed his attorney to get custody of Mary. Henry succeeded in protecting and gaining legal guardianship of Mary because of the publicity this case received. The case of Mary Ellen Wilson leads to the passage of the New York Act of 1875. The case of this young girl brought many changes such as combating child abuse (Crosson-Tower, 2008; 11). In 1870s movements were made to protect children from abusive homes. The second type of abuse is sexual abuse. There are different types of sexual abuse such as intrafamilial abuse, and extra familial sexual abuse. Intrafamilial abuse refers to sexual abuse that occurs within the family and extra familial abuse refers to sexual abuse occurring outside the family. The third type of abuse is neglect, which some studies suggest may be associated with poverty. There are many different types of neglect such as; educational, abandonment, emotional, medical, nutrition, child endangerment, etc. Neglect is often associated with poverty because many times people in poverty often can’t provide the basic necessities to their children. Some of the reason for why neglect is more prevalent in the poor may be the high levels of stress parents are …show more content…
Unfortunately, abuse in foster care may not be the only challenge these children face but those who age out of the system also face other challenges such as likelihood of ending up homeless. Our foster care system needs enormous mounts of repair in order to truly protect foster children from further
Foster Care is a system for kids that are not in a healthy home or that do not have parents. Kids that are in Foster Care suffer from the sense of being left alone, from being unwanted, and being lost. These things create life long problems and an unstable emotional life for kids in the system. Children in the Foster Care system is overflowing, the time children spend in the system is incredibly wrong, and many children suffer from abuse in their household that they are placed in.
Overflow on System
Foster Care
Children that are in Foster care have been entered for many reasons. Some kids are orphaned and have no family to take care of them and some do not have a suitable home or family to take care of them. …show more content…
Mary Ellen Wilson, an eight year old girl, was the first case to receive media attention and legal action. She was abused and neglected by her stepparents. Henry Bergh, who founded the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, directed his attorney to get custody of Mary. Henry succeeded in protecting and gaining legal guardianship of Mary because of the publicity this case received. The case of Mary Ellen Wilson leads to the passage of the New York Act of 1875. The case of this young girl brought many changes such as combating child abuse (Crosson-Tower, 2008; 11). In 1870s movements were made to protect children from abusive homes. The second type of abuse is sexual abuse. There are different types of sexual abuse such as intrafamilial abuse, and extra familial sexual abuse. Intrafamilial abuse refers to sexual abuse that occurs within the family and extra familial abuse refers to sexual abuse occurring outside the family. The third type of abuse is neglect, which some studies suggest may be associated with poverty. There are many different types of neglect such as; educational, abandonment, emotional, medical, nutrition, child endangerment, etc. Neglect is often associated with poverty because many times people in poverty often can’t provide the basic necessities to their children. Some of the reason for why neglect is more prevalent in the poor may be the high levels of stress parents are …show more content…
Unfortunately, abuse in foster care may not be the only challenge these children face but those who age out of the system also face other challenges such as likelihood of ending up homeless. Our foster care system needs enormous mounts of repair in order to truly protect foster children from further