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What Are the Risks of Psychological Issues

What Are the Risks of Psychological Issues

When children are placed in foster homes, one of the major indications for why some of these children inherit psychological problems is because of the identity problems that they face. Once a child is placed in a foster home, they often feel that he or she no longer has a family with whom to identify.
Many children that are placed in foster homes are not aware of the cause of this void in their lives; they just know that they are unhappy living in these foster homes. Many of these children feel that no matter how hard their foster parents try, they are always going to feel the void of not being able to be with their birth family. 
Even in those circumstances where abuse was prevalent, many of those children had at least moments when they were able to think of their biological family as home. That is not to say that the child should not have been removed from that environment and placed into foster homes by the State. However, many children that are in a foster home will always have a longing to be with their biological families. This is why recent legislation has encouraged placing children in the foster homes of close relatives.
If a child has to be separated from a parent and placed in a foster home, the child sometimes feels as though they are an illegitimate member of their new foster home. When children are placed in foster homes, they sometimes believe that they do not belong to the family.
Once they enter these foster homes, they feel like outsiders in the place that they are supposed to call home. This causes many children placed in a foster home to develop psychological issues. It is difficult for them to live in a foster home because they do not feel like they belong there.
Then there are some children that are placed in foster homes that grow up without their biological family and they go on to live their lives despising the fact that they were not granted the opportunity. Those children that are in these foster homes reach a point in time when they want to learn more about their birth family.
For those that are placed in foster homes and have come to grow a close bond with their foster family while they are in a foster home, they do not know how to handle the fact that they want to learn more about their family. This, too, can cause children to develop psychological problems while they are in a foster home.
While they are in a foster home, they feel a conflict within themselves because they do not know how to deal with the fact that they would like to learn more about their birth families. Some of them feel that this inquisition will hurt their foster family, so they may choose to hold this longing inside, which can lead to psychological problems.

Sociological Studies of Foster Care

Sociological Studies of Foster Care

Many people believe that a child will live a better life if
they are able to live with their birth parents rather than being placed in a
foster home. There is inadequate research that explores what should be done if
that opportunity ceases to be an option. These sociological studies just do not
quite sum up what is the prime solution when a child has to be placed in a
foster home. With the number of children in the foster care system averaging at
over 500,000 each year nationwide, it is important to explore the avenues that
can be taken with the
 foster care. 

One of the common issues that
children in foster care face are behavioral problems. The instances of trauma
that children that are placed in a foster home often face are much too intense
for them to handle. Once they are finally able to exit that circumstance and
make their way to a foster home, many of these children have not come to terms
with the issues that caused them to be in a foster home in the first place.
This causes many of those children to have behavioral problems when they enter
a new foster home. They have yet to be given the proper treatment to deal with
the
 abuse. 

All You Need to Know About Children Unprepared For Adulthood

All You Need to Know About Children Unprepared For Adulthood

Although the Federal Government has enforced a law that states that as a foster child exits the foster care system and is between the ages of 18 and 21, he or she is to receive additional aid from the State in the form of health care benefits, training, and financial assistance, this does not help every foster child.
Some foster children do not qualify. Some programs are substandard. Some foster children do not know that this is available to them. Others do not feel encouraged of the importance of this to their lives and future. Some foster children have a negative view of the foster care system, and are not interested in what it offers them during their transition into adulthood. 
Although the training and health care benefits that the State is able to offer foster children is a step in the right direction, it is not the best solution. The statistics of life after a foster child exits the system shows that there is a larger problem at hand that affords more than just the offering of a few additional State-provided services. Given the statistics regarding foster children who lead a destructive lifestyle after leaving foster care, it is important that the Government gets to the root of the problem within the foster care system.
Foster children need more than just a few additional courses after a lifetime in the foster care system. A foster child needs to receive the preparation they will need to become productive members of society throughout their time in the foster care system. A foster child needs proper life education as they continue to grow and mature. 
A foster child is no different from any other child in that they learn the life lessons that prepare them for adulthood along the way. Thus, the foster care system should focus their attention on giving a foster child guidance from the moment that they enter the system.

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