Category: Adoption

How has Social Policy Shaped Foster Care Practice in the Australian Welfare Context? Reviewing the history of Foster Care, it must be recognized that Foster Care practice has not been able to make substantial and measured improved outcomes for children. Rather, despite decades of policy change, strategy and foster care change, the system has only…

The most interesting thing that I have learned in these chapters is the removal of Native Americans called the Mohicans, who were located in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. I am actually not too familiar with this topic but I was very intrigued to read and learn more about the issue. A current topic that I am a…

Significant Issues Faced by Youth Aging out of Foster Care In 2018 there were over 438,000 children in the United States foster care system and more children are being added every day (Foster). These children have often seen or felt horrible forms of abuse or neglect. They are usually left in the system for months…

To foster is to take care of a child, usually for a limited time, without being the child’s legal parent (Cambridge Dictionary). There are different types of fostering, namely long term, short term, family and friendskinship, emergency, respite, remand, fostering for adoption, and specialist therapeutic. Whilst different qualifications may be needed for each type, the…

According to the Adoption Network, about 60-70% of domestic adoptions are open, meaning that there is some level of openness and acknowledgment of information between the adoptive and birth parents about the adopted child. However, while people believe that adopted children should be able to contact their birth parents, there is compelling evidence that suggests…

Raising an abandoned or orphaned child as their own family was easy back then. It took an informal arrangement, once the family and the child are in common ground, both are in good condition. Numerous people are considering adoption as an alternative to growing their family. There are numerous benefits of adopting a child. However,…

In todays society, many children face many challenges from a young age in regard to their living circumstances and conditions. This correlates to how they live at home, the people who are in the household, and how they interact with one another. The expectations for families are that they provide security and stability. I believe…

The purpose of this essay is to discuss my intervention as a co-worker whilst on placement as a student social worker in a Children`s social care team with two unaccompanied asylum-seeking teenage boys from North Africa. Our role was to meet with the boys, get to know them and, assess their needs and help them…

Wandering the barren streets and scouring for a place to shield himself from the evil of this world, the boy longs for something else. He has no one to turn to for assistance throughout the nightmares of his chilling past. Life can be intimidating for every person in society, but the tests relinquished onto homeless,…

Built on the basis of relationships and work ethics, The Spirit of Want by William H. Coles is an amazing fictional tale that spun for more than a decade. The novel is organized into forty-two chapters which feature Lucy as the main protagonist. Lucy is an orphaned girl adopted by Doctor Abner J.(A.J.) She is…