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How do US foster group homes decrease the ability of children aged 12-18…
How do US foster group homes decrease the ability of children aged 12-18 to live above the poverty line once they age out of the system?
Economic
Washington Post reported that “in nearly every state… the cost of providing basic care for a foster child exceeds the government's foster-care reimbursement rate.”
the economic downturn takes a toll on struggling families; the number of children and youth entering and remaining in foster care is expected to increase as the economy worsens
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Using the theory of consumer behavior, the authors estimate a statistical model of the determinants of adoptions from foster care across the United States using data for fiscal years 1996 and 1997, finding that the size of the adoption assistance payment is the only policy variable that is clearly and positively correlated with success in achieving adoption for waiting children.
According to the organization Partners for Our Children, half of the adults under the age of 23-24 are unemployed with many of them unable to be secure form a socio-economic standpoint.
The law, called the Family First Prevention Services Act, prioritizes keeping families together and puts more money toward at-home parenting classes, mental health counseling and substance abuse treatment — and puts limits on placing children in institutional settings such as group hom
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Legal
The law, called the Family First Prevention Services Act, prioritizes keeping families together and puts more money toward at-home parenting classes, mental health counseling and substance abuse treatment — and puts limits on placing children in institutional settings such as group homes.
The law, called the Family First Prevention Services Act, prioritizes keeping families together and puts more money toward at-home parenting classes, mental health counseling and substance abuse treatment — and puts limits on placing children in institutional settings such as group homes. It’s the most extensive overhaul of foster care in nearly four decades.
Social
In a survey of California families who adopted in the 1980s, about 64% said they were willing to adopt a black child, but only 5% of the willing families actually adopted transracially (Brooks & James, 2002).
These kind of emotional disruptions indicate that the social risks surrounding disruptions within sibling and family relationships have implications for the mental health of youth as well
outh in foster care have sex at a younger age compared to non-foster care adolescents (Boonstra, 2011; Coleman-Cowger, Green, & Clark, 2011), and engage in more sexual risk-taking like participating in unprotected sex
Despite the fact that relationships are important, Fong and colleagues (2006) found that many foster parents were not aware of youth’s engagement in risky behaviors before and even during foster care placement.
The sad truth is that many grown-up foster children end up homeless and on the streets. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reports that up to 50% of former foster or probation youth end up homeless within the first year and a half of their emancipation.
Study by the Research Center found that almost one half of all foster children were relocated due to sibling consolidation, kinship placement, or due to problems in the foster home/agency.
Psychological
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Price is measured not only in money, but in the value of time.
. Baker and colleagues (2007) found that 51% of their sample of youth in foster care had a history of psychiatric hospitalization, while 77% were prescribed psychiatric medication.
A significant mental health risk that is particularly relevant to youth in foster care is post-traumatic stress disorder (i.e., PTSD; Dorsey et al 2012;). According to the DSM-V, PTSD is an anxiety disorder triggered by one or more traumatic events throughout the lifetime (American Psychological Association, 2013).
Research indicates that almost 50% of youth in foster care have a history of drug use and that one-third meet diagnostic criteria for substance usage disorder
Childwelfare.gov has a laundry list of long-term consequences of child abuse and neglect based on studies that included 905,000 children reported abused in 2006 alone
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, Soothill and Derbyshire (1982) reported that the attrition rate for 64 foster cares was 25% per year
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