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This is because since more children are entering foster care in the early years of life when brain growth and development are most active. The younger a child may be, psychological effects become even more profound, and during the first 3 to 4 years of life, many traits are established, strengthened, and made permanent (Weldon, 2001). These traits include personality, leaning processes, and coping with stress and emotions. When a child is exposed to negative environmental conditions during the development of the brain and nervous system, serious effects will occur (Weldon, 2001). Finally, a child having no dominating parental figure during the early years of development may lead to a child never being able to receive nurture from any other person. This effect is the most devastating effect that foster care has on young children because it begins a cycle. Since these children grow into adults not capable of receiving love and nurture from others, they do not become loving and nurturing parents themselves.
Conclusion
The foster care system in the United States must undergo several important reforms before foster care will have a positive effect on young children growing up in the system. Foster parents need more support and training, and...
Child protective service workers need to meet with supervisory staff to discuss how caseload management could be addressed so that recruitment and retention can be included. The community and the legislature need to be made aware of the importance of foster care and of the crisis in the foster care system and the need for foster parents. The legislature needs to be made aware of the success that technology has had in the field of adoption and how that same success can be made in foster care.
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Bibliography
Albers, E., Reilly, T., & Rittner, B. (1993). Children in foster care: Possible factors affecting permanency planning. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal 10: 329-
Pecora, P., Williams, J., Kessler, R., Downs, C., O'Brien, K. & Morello, S. (2003). Assessing the Effects of Foster Care. Retrieved July 22, 2007, at http://www.casey.org.
Katz, L. (1987). An Overview of Current Clinical Issues in Separation and Placement. Child and Adolescent Social Work 4: 209-225.
National Adoption and Foster Care Statistics. (2004). Administration for Families and Children.
Retrieved July 15, 2007, at http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/dis/afcars/publications/afcars.htm.
Weldon, C. (2001). Foster Care: A Psychological War. Retrieved July 22, 2007, at http://www.samford.edu/schools/artsci/scs/weldon.html.
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2). Barber and Delfabbro report that research has determined that children with physical and mental disabilities fare better in institutional settings, where the continuity in care-to-need structure is in place and the consistency in structured routine seems to better serve the individual (p. 7). Thus, best practice in foster care should begin with a careful assessment of each child's suitability for placement. Where the child suffers from serious emotional or behavioural