Foster Children and Deviance Risks After Emancipation

2021 ◽  
pp. 214-225
Author(s):  
Gianna M. Strube
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Foster Care ◽  
Foster Children ◽  
Deviant Behavior ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Aging Out ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Foster Care System ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Care System

The subject of this chapter is how foster children may become at risk of displaying deviant behavior after emancipation from care. The chapter argues that there is a special need to provide for young people's legal protection and care after emancipation. The chapter then highlights the issues surrounding of foster children being abused and neglected, aging out of the system, and the programs offered as they overcome certain measures during their adolescent years. This research advocates for foster children in this category and outlines how their deviant behavior is perceived and defined and asks if this perception is just a stereotype. The research methodologies included interviews from those involved in the foster care system, in addition to literature and research from professional foster agencies.

Rose's Thorn

2021 ◽  
pp. 316-329
Author(s):  
Regina Gavin Williams
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Aging Out ◽  
Public High School ◽  
Foster Care System ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Daunting Task ◽  
Care System

This case study examines the life of Rose, a 17-year-old junior attending a public high school in a southeastern city. In the state where Rose resides, the year of “aging-out” of the foster care system is 18-years-old. With the age of 18 being such a pivotal year, Rose must not only think about her potential post-secondary options, but her ability to achieve adult self-sufficiency at such a young age as well. With no supports, this proves to be a daunting task for Rose. It becomes Rose's thorn. This chapter will explore the career and college readiness self-efficacy of Rose as she navigates her post-secondary options, builds her support networks, and discovers resources for adolescents aging out of the foster care system via her work with Dr. Williams, creator and counselor of the Students That Are Reaching Success (S.T.A.R.S.) program. Results from Rose's participation in the program will be shared and implications for counselors working with adolescents aging out of the foster care system will be reviewed.

Foster Care Chronicles: Use of the Arts for Teens Aging Out of the Foster Care System

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maura Busch Nsonwu ◽  
Susan Dennison ◽  
Jennifer Long
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Aging Out ◽  
Foster Care System ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Care System

Foster Care Children

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-138
Author(s):  
HOWARD B. DEMB
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Foster Children ◽  
Foster Care System ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Care System

To the Editor.— After reading Schor's article "The Foster Care System and Health Status of Foster Children" (Pediatrics 1982;69:521) I wished that there was one point he would have made more clearly. Namely, that the population of children coming into foster care has a high incidence of psychopathology, much of it rather severe. A corollary point should also be made, ie, that the quantity and quality of psychopathology produced by the fact of entering foster care is minimal by comparison to the nature and extent of the psychopathology already present in these children when they come into foster care.

Foster Care Children

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-138
Author(s):  
JOHN D. MADDEN
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Foster Care ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Foster Children ◽  
Foster Child ◽  
Foster Care System ◽  
Children In Foster Care ◽  
Social Pediatrics ◽  
The Family ◽  
Care System

To the Editor.— Schor's article, "The Foster Care System and Health Status of Foster Children" (Pediatrics 1982;69:521) may well prove to be a landmark paper in social pediatrics. The related editorial by Sokoloff (Pediatrics 1982;69:649) provided invaluable advice as to how we, as pediatricians, can better serve children in foster care. One point in Sokoloff's editorial particularly caught my attention. He expressed the hope that pediatricians providing health care to the natural children within the family would also be willing to attend the needs of the foster child and that the fact that in some states Medicaid is responsible financially for these children would not deter the physician from doing so.

A child for every family? Characterizations of “adoptable” foster children in online permanency advocacy publications

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (7) ◽  
pp. 2098-2117
Author(s):  
Kristina M. Scharp ◽  
Lindsey J. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Foster Children ◽  
Relational Dialectics ◽  
Relational Dialectics Theory ◽  
Adoptive Families ◽  
Foster Care System ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Adoption Agency ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Care System

Despite the prevalence of children in need of adoption from the U.S. foster care system, only one of every 28 individuals who contact an adoption agency adopt from foster care. In response, adoption professionals create photolistings to maximize the pool of available prospective adoptive families and enhance the visibility of fostered youth. Yet, creating photolistings is challenging because professionals must navigate helping to place children without exploiting or misrepresenting them. Framed by relational dialectics theory, a contrapuntal analysis of 104 photolistings examined the discursive tensions of what it means to be an “adoptable” child. Findings revealed three discourses that constitute meaning: (1) discourse of child as unadoptable, (2) discourse of child as special, and (3) discourse of child as typical. The findings illustrate triadic interplay of all three discourses, wherein framing a child as special and/or typical counters culturally pervasive and damaging assumptions that fostered youth might be unadoptable or less adoptable than other children. Theoretical, methodological, and practical applications are discussed.

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