a look at foster care in the u.s. more than 250,000 children in the u.s enter foster care every...
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A Look at Foster Care in the U.S
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• More than 250,000 children in the U.S enter foster care every year.
• By this statistic, every four years, one million kids will go through the system.
• There are currently 500,000 children in the foster system in the United States.
Meet the Children
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Neglect and Abuse of our Children
• 60 children died in 2005 in foster homes in California.• Between April 2005 and March of 2006, 13 children
died while in state care in Arizona. • Three children died in Texas caused by foster care
givers in 2005.• Eighty three children in Oregon foster care were
victims of abuse or neglect in 2012.
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The Number of Waiting Children
• Parental rights of more than 60 % of children in foster care have been terminated.
• Many of these children are in the system over 2 years before being placed in a home.
• 20,000 children age out of foster care at 18-21.• 65% are on there own, alone and homeless.• 40% of people in homeless shelters are former
foster children.
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Child Neglect in the Foster Care System is an Issue That Needs to be Eradicated
• Statistics show that children in foster care are 3 times more likely to be abused.
• 28 percent are more likely to be sexually abused, especially in group homes.
• Children don’t survive.• Why do states take these risk?• Children are taken from homes where they are deemed as
unsafe and placed in foster care, for their well-being.• Yet, are these children really better off?
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Effects• Studies show that 30% of children in foster care systems
have behavioral, emotional and developmental problems.
• Foster care children IQ’s are 20 points lower.• Many teen suicides.• Over 240,000 run away from foster homes.
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The United States needs to do more to protect our children
• Need better screening of foster parents• Unannounced visits from case workers.• Need to provide more case workers for children.• Verification of check-ups• Monitoring of deaths of children in foster care..• Pay more attention to the children in foster care who have been in the
system the longest.
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Child Lost in the system
• Ashley Rhodes – Courter,• Experienced foster care from the inside.• Taken from mother at age 3 and placed in foster
care.• Spent 9 years of her life in foster care, in 14
different homes.• Shuffled from school to school.• Suffered mental and physical abuse from abusive
foster family. • Nationally acclaimed public speaker and child
welfare advocate.
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Conclusion
The magnitude of neglect and abuse in foster care in the United States is startling. Foster care is a huge issue in this country and will continue to be a problem if we are unaware of the issues.
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Works Citedwww.nyc.gov/html/acs/html/statistics/statistics_links.shtmlhttp://www.nationalfostercare.org/about-nfcc.htmlhttp://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/research-data-technology/statistics-researchwww.Nationalfostercarestatistics.org.The Children’s Advocacy Institute, University of San Diego School of Law.Rhodes-Courter, Ashley. “Three Little Words.http://images.search.yahoo.com/